The Death of a Supreme Court Justice, and a District Attorney. A sad day for the legal community

[legalboxers]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/22/us/robert-morgenthau-death-obituary/index.html
Robert Morgenthau, longtime Manhattan DA and 'Law & Order' inspiration, dies at 99

Robert M. Morgenthau, the longtime Manhattan district attorney who set the "gold standard" for prosecutors and was the model prosecutor for the TV series "Law & Order," has died at the age of 99.

Morgenthau took office in 1975 and ran the district attorney's office for 35 years until the age of 90, making him New York City's longest serving district attorney.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/16/john-paul-stevens-died-justice-obituary-121194
John Paul Stevens, long-serving Supreme Court justice, dies at 99

John Paul Stevens, the third-longest serving justice in U.S. Supreme Court history and a court figure whose influence grew markedly over his tenure, has died.

He was 99. The Associated Press reported that he died Tuesday in Florida after suffering a stroke Monday.

The bow-tie-wearing Chicago Republican served from December 1975 to June 2010, a term on the court only eclipsed by those of William O. Douglas (1939-75) and Stephen Field (1863-97). At the age of 90, Stevens was the second-oldest justice ever at the time of his retirement, behind only Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Both men, respectfully shaped, and formed judicial laws on different levels of the playing field

D.A. Morgenthau Notable Cases:
Mark David Champman - John Lennon killer (The Beatles for the youngins)
Bernard Goetz - was attacked on a train and he shot them (We didn't Start the Fire Reference)
Robert Chambers - killed his girlfriend during sex
Central Park 5 - Exonerated them - (Sorry Trumpturds)

John Paul Stevens Notable Cases:
http://archive.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/04/10/notable_case_opinions_by_john_paul_stevens/
1998, Clinton v. City of New York.

1978, Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation. (Dirty Words - Personal Fave)

2006, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld - he held that the Supreme Court had jurisdiction to hear cases from detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba and that the Bush administration did not have authority to set up military commissions without congressional authorization.
(WOMP WOMP)

2002, Atkins v. Virginia. In a 6-3 ruling, he argued that applying the death penalty to mentally disabled criminals violates the cruel and unusual punishment ban in the Eighth Amendment.

2005, Kelo v. City of New London (Conn.). In a 5-4 ruling, he defended cities’ use of the eminent domain principle to condemn houses so that a private development could proceed. (WOMP WOMP)

[genericname85]

the American court system is a farce in my opinion anyway. whoever conducts the most convincing play for the jury wins. what does that have to do with "justice"?