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posted by martyb on Tuesday May 02 2017, @05:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the wait-until-it-happens-to-someone-he-knows dept.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/04/public-defender-lambasts-judicial-ruling-to-not-fix-flawed-court-software/

The public defender's office in Alameda County, California, has recently appealed a local judge's recent rejection of its demands to fix an upgraded court software. That software led to the unconstitutional and erroneous jailing of some of its clients.

"These delays and errors violate Government Code ยง 69844's express requirement that Superior Court clerks enter judicial orders 'forthwith,' as well as the constitutional right to a complete and accurate record on appeal and the Fourth Amendment prohibition upon unlawful arrests and illegal searches," Charles Denton, an assistant public defender, wrote in his April 10 brief.

[...] As part of his March 2017 ruling, Superior Court Judge Morris Jacobson noted that, while a state law mandates that such court records be kept "forthwith," it does not specify that such records be processed within 24 hours. Instead, the law stipulates that records should be processed within an unspecified "reasonable" time.


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @02:16PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @02:16PM (#502822)

    Easy solution: put that judge in jail 'an unspecified "reasonable" time' -defined by himself- until the issue that he refuse to fix is equally solved for his victims.

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  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Tuesday May 02 2017, @07:23PM

    by edIII (791) on Tuesday May 02 2017, @07:23PM (#503068)

    Yep. It would be nice if Anonymous got that bastard judge swatted, arrested, credit cards cancelled, etc.

    Let the judge know just how much he depends on correctly working software in his life, and just how bad it can be when it isn't, and the travesty of justice denied when the powers that be don't give a fucking shit.

    All bastards like that deserve the spot in hell waiting for them.

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