In such a circumstance, the fair administration of criminal justice is imperiled.
These activities "present a real danger to the fair administration of elections and to the fundamental freedom to vote," as a recent report by Common Cause and Demos put it.
Ideals such as equality between classes and sexes, efficient and just state institutions, a reduction in poverty, the fair administration of justice and education for all come to nothing when a nation cannot even protect its citizens from its own soldiers or the armed militias who have taken their place.
Because criminalizing an effective medical technique affects the fair administration of justice, I feel obliged to speak out as both a judge and a cancer patient suffering with a fatal disease.
A report of the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice showed that it costs, on average, $90,000 a year more to keep an inmate on death row than to put him into a maximum-security prison to serve a life sentence without parole.
The proposals had been recommended by the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice, a bipartisan body of police officials, prosecutors and defense lawyers charged by the State Senate to address the most common causes of wrongful convictions and recommend changes in criminal justice procedures.
14 The rights to notice, confrontation, and compulsory process, when taken together, guarantee that a criminal charge may be answered in a manner now considered fundamental to the fair administration of American justicethrough the calling and interrogation of favorable witnesses, the cross-examination of adverse witnesses, and the orderly introduction of evidence.
Kenyon sternly reprimanded the defense lawyers for discussing the case in the press, saying that their comments had created a "serious and imminent threat" to the fair administration of justice.
