-Sammy Sorrell-
Author, Radio Talk Show Host, National Director of Legal Reform Group
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"No single factor offers a greater argument for urgent legal justice reform more than our revolving door criminal justice system. I have pushed this issue in books, on talk show radio and on the Internet for several years. Each year crime in America (homegrown terrorism) becomes more unbelievable as our judicial system swings the revolving door open even wider. Drunk drivers have become the most feared homegrown terrorist in America. These DWI's have killed more good Americans than were killed in all our wars combined. And they continue to kill over 70 people daily or about 25,000 American annually. Yet daily we see a DWI arrested with up to 21 prior convictions while Americans shout what are they doing out on the street? They are on the street because the judicial system is broken under the political weight of lawyers. Nobody but nobody receives a greater economic benefit from all crime than lawyers. The bottom line is simply lawyers are not only controlling the judicial system but the entire law making machinery including the federal congress where about 65% of that body are lawyers. Under this picture legal justice reform stands to be long preceded by vigilante justice and possibly national anarchy...."Author Sammy Sorrell
The level of comfort and trust Americans have in their government is fast disappearing today as corruption, fraud and political infighting by professional politicians reach the top echelons of government both state and federal. A spotlight example of that problem came to light in late March 2007 in New Mexico state government and reverberated all the way to the federal government in Washington, D.C.. The New Mexico kettle of fish had been stinking since 2004 involving reported huge kickbacks in the construction of the new Metro Courthouse in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This fiasco happened under the watch of former U.S. attorney in New Mexico David Iglesias, former New Mexico attorney general Patricia Madrid and the powerful, longtime Democratic state senate speaker Manny Aragon. The conclusion of the investigation on a scheme to defraud the state burst upon the public scene with indictment of Manny Aragon, a lawyer and New Mexico’s top lawmaker for over twenty years who allegedly received kickbacks adding up to $700,000. Pleading guilty in the scheme was former Albuquerque mayor Ken Schultz, Marc Schiff, architect and senior partner in charge of the project, Manual Guara, subcontractor that inflated vouchers and kickback money. Not yet indicted as of this writing Toby and Sandra Martinez the court boss and his wife that are accused of approving over $2 million in phony invoices for kickback purposes. Also not yet indicted as of this writing is Raul Parra accused of skimming off $773,000 and funneling thousands of dollars more to other defendants. This scam totaled an estimated $4.2 million in fraudulent kickbacks and sent the Metro judges scurrying to the state to pay for overruns on the project. According to reports all of this pipeline of corruption was funneled through the court boss Toby Martinez and his wife.
Honesty is the foundation of strong character. Dishonesty is the foundation of weak character. Like a house built on a sandy foundation weak character will ultimately collapse and often with a loud bang. Government leaders representing the people are expected to be held to a higher moral standard. Their standard of morality can lead a nation to the higher moral ground or lead them to the depths of immorality. These people are the lawmakers of the nation. Every democratic society is a reflection of its laws and how those laws are administered. When lawmakers engage in immoral acts of dishonesty the reflection of the nation’s laws is permanently impaired and we have arrived to the age-old excuse (everybody does it) that sends a nation further toward the edge of the slippery slope of immorality. Don't believe for a moment that people in the Judicial system that operate behind closed doors are somehow exempt from politics and corruption that constantly leaves our justice system tainted. Each time a judge or other court official gets caught in corruption and politics the hue and cry by the system is "look at small number of these court officials as opposed to other areas of society. The answer to this is the majority operate behind closed doors and have not been caught yet. History records great nations that have destroyed themselves because of the slippery slope of immorality that is the embryo stage of crime. Could this all be placed at the doorstep of a counter-culture with a strong foothold in our nation hell-bent on creating a utopia of peace without God?
The Scandalous State of Justice in America
A major player in the social issues of America is our very own judicial system. Sometime ago in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a state district court handed down the largest judgment in history. The facts of the case were scandalous and irrefutable. This case brought to reality the joke that one lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand criminals with guns. The judgment was $21 million against a lawyer who handled a woman's trust estate, left by her deceased husband. After the husband's death, information was kept from the woman about the value of the estate, which ultimately grew to over $20 million dollars. All the while the woman was receiving $150 per month when she should have been receiving at least the interest in the trust amounting to $78,000 per year. She died in a rest home with her son having to borrow money to pay for her funeral services.
In Washington, DC, we have all witnessed an unbelievable lawyer pony and dog show featuring a cast of over a hundred lawyers. The show stared a lawyer American president, his lawyer wife, the White House and hordes of lawyers planning legal strategy, the justice department lawyers and a special lawyer prosecutor surrounded by a staff of lawyers. American citizens finally paid a top admission price of near $40 million dollars for a ringside seat to witness this humongous lawyer spectacle of hide-n-seek justice.
Special TV magazine shows are beginning to showcase the scandal ridden dominant lawyer culture. Sixty Minutes, Prime Time, 20/20, Dateline and other major network shows are devoting specials to highlight lawyer misconduct, judicial abuse, judicial ad-hockery and prosecutorial abuse in the Judicial system. Newspapers are devoting special sections to subjects relating to the lawyer based American judicial system.
All these happenings signal a crisis resulting from lawyer domination in American government and particularly the American Judicial system.
The Very Real Dangers Revealed
There are real dangers in the very foundation of the American judicial system today. These dangers confront serious moral, ethical, constitutional and economic questions.
While we cannot allude to the actions of the lawyer based judicial system as the basis of our total moral decline in the USA, we can document it's contribution to those problems, including the flourishing, largest criminal culture on the planet, which has changed the lifestyle of the great American nation.
In a nation with over 70% of the world's lawyers "policing" themselves, Social Issues Revealed makes the case for immediate concern and legal justice reform.
While there are many fine people in the American Judicial system who have devoted their professional lives to equity and justice, there are a great number who have not been so noble.
In fact, the American Judicial system in large part has become a business opportunity for lawyers first and foremost. Client benefit, true equity and justice have been and are being subordinated to the business opportunity concept. Equity and justice is for sale to the highest bidder. Because of lawyer monopoly of the legal services profession, 75% (American Bar Association estimate) of the lower income Americans cannot afford the cost of the legal system and therefore are denied access and their shot at justice.
Prosecutorial (lawyer) abuse is rampant. Political persecution under the guise of judicial prosecution is the order of the day with many political lawyers in the state offices of District Attorney and Attorneys General. Many prosecutorial lawyers seek high profile cases and manipulate the media for name recognition as they climb the political ladder moving to a higher political office. A prosecutor victims graveyard stands as a monument to prosecutorial abuse in most states, created and maintained at the taxpayer expense.
Bar associations literally operate the control tower of the Judicial system. Lawyer discipline is a joke. Lawyer deceit, misconduct, malpractice and theft is cloaked in a shroud of secrecy. Discipline is almost non-existent even in states where discipline is administered by a committee under the state supreme court. Dracula is in charge of the blood bank!
Government bureaucracies are largely controlled by ambitious and egotistical lawyers either in charge or high at the top with authority and influence. State legislatures are being dominated by lawyers running as high as 50% lawyer members. The US Congress is comprised of 55% lawyers. Occupants of the executive branch have been lawyers over 60% of the time. The judicial system enjoys 100% lawyer domination. What we now have are lawyers making the laws, lawyers judging us in the laws, lawyers prosecuting us in the laws, lawyers defending us in the laws, lawyers interpreting the laws and lawyers administering the laws - is this a constitutional nightmare?
Civil litigants entitled to their day in court under the constitution have to pay a ransom to lawyers to access the system. If you are a rapist, murderer or other felon then you don't have to pay the ransom. Just get a court appointed lawyer and the taxpayers pick up that expensive tab! We watch as our system of civil justice evolves into an expensive, ludicrous, self-serving business opportunity for the lawyers. We watch as defendants or plaintiffs who have millions of dollars at their disposal literally buy equity and justice. In this system lawyer judges create a maze of case law daily until there is really no law remaining! No judgment is ever final. No jury verdict is ever safe. No legal argument is ever totally without flaws. Lawyers and lawyer judges alone have created the "case law" mess for their own self-serving financial and political purposes.
Any unsuspecting litigant can fall victim to malpractice, fraud and politics in any given court. Survivors can no longer bury their dead in peace if they were the victims of disaster, accident or other demise where deep pockets are a likely target by the lawyer culture. Just the mention of a toxic liability will bring lawyers swarming like bees with retainer contracts using the hood of a car as a desk to capture the instant business opportunity. This is a lawyer based problem.
Finally, when a system of equity and justice, which should be the goal and objective of every court in the land is converted to an arena of merchandising of technicalities, time, legalese, manipulation, deception, fraud and plea bargains, society loses. A murderer or rapist under this scenario may be set free even when identified in a line up. Every one in the court may know that the suspect is guilty- but a legal technicality can set him free to go on his felonious way. The same technical sham of justice can easily convict an innocent party. Your lawyer can be derelict in his duty to you for whatever reason, as thousands of them are, and your dream of a simple solution can turn into a horrible costly nightmare.
Ultimately, it is the hope of the author that this web site may show what happens even in a free democracy when any arm of government is permitted to operate in secrecy, behind closed doors and act as it's own policing agency as has been the case with the American judicial system. But make no mistake about it, this is only one of several major social issues facing the great American nation.
Legal Justice Reform Issues Revealed
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