Comments on: Another Beatty Christmas http://apublicdefender.com/2008/12/25/another-beatty-christmas/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:04:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Optimist http://apublicdefender.com/2008/12/25/another-beatty-christmas/comment-page-1/#comment-44998 Optimist Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:32:38 +0000 http://apublicdefender.com/?p=2014#comment-44998 As horrible as this is, the bigger question is how is it that our courts allowed to do this? Chadwick is no terrorist. This man has never been convicted of a crime. He's never stood before a jury. Yet, the court has locked him up for essentially the rest of his life. And there's no way out for him. He doesn't even have a "sentence." He's literally being kept in jail until the judge feels like letting him go. If the courts can do this to him...when will they do it to you? As horrible as this is, the bigger question is how is it that our courts allowed to do this? Chadwick is no terrorist. This man has never been convicted of a crime. He’s never stood before a jury. Yet, the court has locked him up for essentially the rest of his life. And there’s no way out for him. He doesn’t even have a “sentence.” He’s literally being kept in jail until the judge feels like letting him go.

If the courts can do this to him…when will they do it to you?

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