There's a reason an increasing number of people avoid jury duty- mostly having little if any faith in the American "justice" system.
Why? This is just one story why: Curtis Mertensmeyer.
On Mother's Day 2008- then 20-year-old Mertensmeyer was drunk and speeding when he struck a pedestrian- Daniel Riemann at 55th Street and Ward Parkway.
Mertensmeyer left Riemann in pieces and very dead as he roared off to his affluent Johnson County-KS home.
The people in the vehicle with Mertensmeyer ended up turning their driver in.
No problem. Thanks to Jackson County Circuit Judge John Torrence- Mertensmeyer gets off his first-degree manslaughter charge with an unbelievable "120 days" in jail.
Four months for killing someone.
Drunk (geez- this guy avoided these idiotic sobriety checkpoints)- speeding and leaving the victim to die no less.
Not only that- but according to The KANSAS CITY STAR story- Lousy Judge Torrence kicked Rieman's parents out of the courtroom.
The WRONG people were kicked from that courtroom!
I'd call American justice a joke- but there's nothing funny at all about this or any number of screwed-up sentances some of these judges hand out.
People wanted to recall Mayor Funkhouser over bullshit.
If these recall people REALLY want to do the citizens some good- recall Jackson County Circuit Judge John Torrence.
And don't darken my mailbox with a jury summons again- justice- my ASS!!!
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