Comments about ‘Warren Jeffs' attorneys request a speedy trial’

You know something's wrong when a creep like Jeffs gets away. I heard him talking in a documentary film called "Banking on Heaven" and it made my skin crawl. I hope the new trial is swift and lands right back in jail.

Try him again and then fry him! Jail for life! Don't let Texas have all the fun with him!

What ever happened to double jeopardy? You know, that part of the US Constitution that says a person cannot be tried twice for the same crime?

@wrz:

Maybe you should go read the constitution again. What do you think we should do with people who don't get a fair trial? Jail them anyway? Let them go?

Double jeopardy doesn't apply here, because of errors in the first trial. For crying out loud, Jeffs is the one who ASKED for a new trial because he didn't like the way the first one turned out.

Thanks for the chuckle.

@cynic 5:25 p.m.:

"Maybe you should go read the constitution again."

I've read it. Dozens of times. All of it.

"What do you think we should do with people who don't get a fair trial?"

Let them go. If a judge is so inept he/she can't preside properly over a case he/she has to let the defendant go. No do-overs. Says so in the Constitution.

"Jail them anyway?"

No.

"Let them go?"

Yes. You can't jail them with a thrown out conviction. So you have to let them go. Says so in the Constitution.... did I say?

"Double jeopardy doesn't apply here, because of errors in the first trial."

Where's it say that in the Constitution? The constitution says a person can't be twice put in jeopardy for the same offense.

"For crying out loud, Jeffs is the one who ASKED for a new trial because he didn't like the way the first one turned out."

Where's it say Jeffs' makes the rules?

"Thanks for the chuckle."

Don't thank me. Thank the Judge. He/she's who screwed this up.

If he would lose favor with his people, then he wouldn't have so much power to abuse them. I fear that he will go right back to his old ways.