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To: LLCF who wrote (36081)	11/10/2000 9:40:02 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 436258

One of the things you learn as a lawyer, that probably seems shocking to those who aren't, is that there is no way to set up a legal system to insure that the results are just. All you can do is set up the rules and the system so that everyone knows what they are and then make sure that people play by the rules. Sometimes the results will be unfair, sometimes they will be unjust. But if the rules were set up to insure justice, then you would be at the mercy of judges deciding what's just, and judges are human, too. They already have too much power to make sure that the outcome is something they like, so they have to be limited by rules, too. I see it all the time with pro se litigants. They screw up following the rules and then are shocked because the outcome isn't fair. But the outcome isn't supposed to be perfect. All you are entitled to is due process. In Florida, the judges at the trial level are elected, so they are subject to popular pressure. That's very dangerous.