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June 09, 2004

If At First You Don't Succeed

Try, try the accused again:

The Russian Supreme Court ordered a physicist Wednesday to stand trial again on espionage charges, overturning a jury's acquittal that had been celebrated as a triumph of Russia's post-Soviet legal reform...

"The Supreme Court is closely aligned with the state; it had a duty and it fulfilled it as expected," Sergei Pashin, a former judge and one of Russia's top experts on legal reform, told The Associated Press.

How could you not love a legal system whose motto is "Innocent until the state gets the verdict they want?"

As War Liberal says:

At least when the Communists were in charge, you knew you'd be found guilty and could get on with the sentence. When is Putin going to give up and have himself named Tsar Vladimir I?

You mean he hasn't already?