Appeals Court Thought It Was Helping Dog Paw But There Is Another Kind Of Justice.…

There is a lot of pol­i­tics involved in the way dan­ger­ous crim­i­nals are returned to the streets by tri­al judges and the appel­late court. Jamaica is a small coun­try of few­er than three mil­lion peo­ple; it had for decades a sin­gle University with its main cam­pus in mona and oth­er Campuses in Trinidad and Barbados.
The sad real­i­ty is that that sin­gle insti­tu­tion of high­er learn­ing has been respon­si­ble for edu­cat­ing most of the nation’s lead­ers. Even if that insti­tu­tion were the most moral, most judi­cious, its alums would still be able to reach out to each oth­er to cor­rupt the polit­i­cal and judi­cial process.

So when we see dan­ger­ous crim­i­nals out on the streets right after they have been con­vict­ed of vio­lent felonies, we may ask how is this possible?
Don’t ask! People know peo­ple who know peo­ple. Some peo­ple are naïve in still believ­ing that these judges who are let­ting those vio­lent felons back onto the streets are some­how moral, upstand­ing jurists.
I don’t. I know bet­ter. The sys­tem thrives on the trust­ing nature of the peo­ple who naive­ly believe that peo­ple in posi­tions of pow­er are wor­thy of trust and adoration.
There are no two ways about the fact that I have been a vocal crit­ic of the judges who con­tin­ue to use their offices to stymie the efforts of law enforce­ment, more impor­tant­ly, to sub­vert and jeop­ar­dize the nation’s secu­ri­ty and expose cit­i­zens to vio­lence and death.

Since the politi­cians are direct ben­e­fi­cia­ries of this cor­rup­tion, they will not do any­thing to fix it. So these cor­rupt prac­tices are left to fes­ter, Judges left to oper­ate as they please, loop­holes left open so that the upper crust may use them as they see fit.
Just this April, the Court of Appeals threw out the con­vic­tion of Jamaica’s for­mer most want­ed, Christopher Dog Paw Linton, and a crony who was serv­ing time since 2013 on gun charges and shoot­ing at police officers.
This court has been on a tear when it comes to dis­turb­ing the deci­sions of tri­al courts. Whatever the rea­son behind that deci­sion not to let the deci­sion stand, whether mon­ey changed hands or friends called in favors, we may nev­er know because the entire sys­tem is a cor­rupt shit-show.

One thing is cer­tain; even a bro­ken clock is cor­rect twice dai­ly; whether we believe in kar­ma or that the uni­verse always gets it right is immaterial.
Christopher Dog Paw Linton went right back to his old ways, and this time, the police left no doubt that he was fir­ing guns at them.
Christopher Dog Paw Linton met his mak­er today after he engaged the police in a shootout and lost.
Thank you, JCF.
You judges thought you were doing him a favor; you should have left him where he was; you are a dis­grace to our country.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.