Does that make any sense, well I suppose if your the movie character Forrest Gump then yes it does, but for the rest of us who live in the real world, legal probability has for many years been the standard that is until the last five or so years when legal verdicts have become something akin to reading a palm you just do not know what will happen next, and that is where experience and negotiating skills come in to play.
These days, what might be law is not what occurs, in most court rooms, some Judges have taken to riding the Bench to develop law, which has given rise to many different types of legally offensive situations where one mans opinions have over ruled the majority of the people.
This was never meant to be, it is not constitutional and it is not good jurisprudence.
Yet, we see evidence of this perversion not only in our court systems, but also in our highest court, The Supreme, court, has over the last 20 years slowly begun a partisan approach to the interpretation of the law this is not only dangerous but it eroding what this nation was built upon.
These days, the law is something that some people are playing fast and loose with considering the Duke case where, a man allowed his own personal opinion to create an incredible amount of liberality for both his profession and the town for which he worked for, it is not only disturbing to see this type of perversion of justice but it is becoming common place practice, forget about having any kind of real proof, none apparently is needed, they charge you and they can ruin your life, (allegedly) with no proof and unless you have deep pockets and a sense for justice you cannot prevail, as in anything in life if a man or a woman makes a mistake either in judgment or expression of personal proclivity, over common sense and the law, then that person should be made responsible for such damage as they bring to the public.
For the most part over the last 30 years, if criminal charges were brought against some one they were publicly presumed guilty, after all we trust our officials, but is that really the right thing to do?
In some ways, some seriously lacking legal pursuits have been brought before the people, it used to be a joke that you could get a ham sandwich indicted, in fact in a interview with an elderly woman who was in a grand jury some years ago, (not as long as you think) She related about how the prosecuting attorney would bring five cases at a time in front of the jury to vote upon.
Which was a serious concern to this lady and I can understand such concerns, as each should be carefully considered, not put before a group of tired senior citizens, of which several in the room were unable to read the written language, (no they were not illegal aliens) they were elderly senior citizens, and some of them were unable to read.
When you see this kind of thing happen in open court, and no one says a thing, you may see a few frowns when this kind of thing happens, but for the most part, people are afraid to say anything, because what if they found themselves being brought up on charges, true or not, you could end up loosing your house, your job, your life savings, all because of one corrupt individual.
So for the most part people remain silent, which is also disturbing, while you may watch the media and feel like you have all the facts, the truth is that news leaked to the media is very seldom accurate, which is another thing that is disturbing, the practice of trying cases in the media.
It is not fair it is often not accurate, but once it occurs do you really think that anyone will belive you are innocent after they get finished with you, you could find that along with everything else you have lost your good name as well as everything you own.
That should be the most disturbing thing of all.