Another urgent aim, it became clear in October with the announcement that a quarter was to be lopped off the justice budget, was cutting costs: it is famously more expensive to send someone to prison than to Eton.
Even in cases that involved both Justice Garson and Paul Siminovsky, the lawyer who has testified that he paid off the justice, rulings have not necessarily been scrutinized or overturned.
Catholics in particular, he recalled in an interview, said the religion of the justices should be off limits.
Gary A. Ewing, who was caught moments after his theft with the three golf clubs hidden in his pants leg, "is precisely the kind of person you want to get off the streets," Justice Antonin Scalia told Mr. Ewing's lawyer, Quin Denvir, after surveying the defendant's life of mostly petty crimes.
The Lib Dems support the introduction of a regulated cannabis market in the UK, arguing legalising and regulating cannabis delivers significant benefits to public health and takes pressure off the criminal justice system.
Despite strenuous efforts, Captain Hood's isolated ship came under heavy fire and was unable to cut off the trailing Justice as the French survivors escaped seawards.
"Brett Ryan was worried that if his fiancee discovered the web of lies, she'd call off the wedding," Justice John McMahon said Friday.
To top it off, the Chief Justice pointed out that because Chavez is being reelected the swearing-in ceremony is "incidental". Fundamentally, however, the Constitution is just window dressing to hide the ruling party's authoritarianism.
One said his action was that of "a tormented soul who was at the end of his tether, cut off from the justice system and from society".
