Posted by: pire July 15, 2010
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Kiddo,
Now, at least you are beginning to talk sensible. Before you thought I should be sentenced to jail for my words. If it was the kind of principle of justice you subscribe to, no wonder your sense of a proper justice system is different from mine.
Sure, the guy is guilty of drink driving, running red lights etc (if the report in newspaper is true). But I don't think the story is told in totality by the journalist. Journalists always look for sensationalism. I find it hard to believe that if the case is so open and shut the Texas police and DA and what not would have let him go so easily. Some Americans in chron.com seem to think that Sajan is rich and may have people in high places which allowed him to run away. I think that is ridiculous, but that also represents the feeling of some americans that, just like we think of Nepali justice system, they think American justice system is corrupt and notworking.
I also find 60-years long sentence appalling. I come from a country where 20 (or 33 in the past) used to be maximum sentence even for an intentional murder. Nepal is poor, corrupt,and law may be nonexist there, but there are something about Nepal that I admire, and one of them is that our belief that jails are supposed to reform criminals. We don't have death penalty in Nepal and that is also something I admire. I hope our police is better, court system is more efficient, but I hope we never do away with some of the beautiful principles underlying our penal system. And some of the chief justices of our supreme court, like Hari Pradhan, actually died poor. He also happens to be the most respected justice of Nepali supreme court. Not everybody, everything about our penal system was bad, and there were good people involved in crafting these fundamental principles.
Last edited: 15-Jul-10 01:53 PM