Judges are Whores

The Final Proof.   There is a rule of law which permits two different offences to be joined in a single trial if they are "connected in their commission".   Needless to say, there is a lot of lawyerly wrangling over what is "included" in the "connected".   The courts have tended to be latitudinarian in their rulings, although common decency is usually supplied by the hard facts of the case.   But when the issue cannot be floated on the hard facts, the courts are just as happy to sink into utter shamelessness, as illustrated by People v. Valdez (2004) 32 Cal.4th 73, in which the "California Supremes" held that it was proper to join a charged escape with a murder alleged to have occurred two years before,

"Although the murder itself occurred almost two years prior to defendant's escape, the offenses were nonetheless connected because the escape occurred as defendant was being returned to "lock-up" following his arraignment on the murder charge. The apparent motive for the escape was to avoid prosecution for the murder."

The issue, under the plain meaning of the statue, is not whether two offences are "connected" in some causal abstraction but whether they were connected in their commission. -- that is, in their doing.  The omission of a modifying adjective, participle or prepositional clause is a typical sophistical artifice of the slime-balls on the high bench.
 
According to Aristotle, language was given to Man so that he could "decide between the just and the unjust and the expedient and inexpedient." (Politics, Bk. I.)   I have my doubts.  Shrieking hyeanas sound better than most judges or lawyers.   Language was a gift of the Devil to embroil Man in filfth and shamlessness. 

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