Dear Editor,
I decided to attend law school in 1983 when I was over 40 years old and after I was well established in my medical specialty. Because the military had paid for my medical degree, I decided to use my V.A. Educational benefits to pay for my law degree. I was able to obtain three college degrees while never borrowing any money to obtain any of them. I chose a law school in Sacramento knowing that I would have a federal appellate court justice by the way of Anthony Kennedy as one of my professors. In law school a number of my fellow students were in medically related professions such as pharmacy, nursing, optometry as well as a few physicians. Almost all of us who had a medically related background realized that the legal profession had long been corrupted just as Thomas Jefferson predicted it would be. In law school you will find that Thomas Jefferson is pretty well treated like a Pariah I believe mostly because of his prediction about what the judiciary and along with it the legal profession would become.
It has been my experience that it is obvious that most trial judges and just about all of the many prosecutors that I have dealt with do not believe in the sixth amendment of the U.S. Constitution as it was written and meant by our founders. They do not believe in the true power of the criminal jury. They believe that the jury must follow and enforce a criminal law no matter how unfair or unjust it is. This is absolutely counter to what our founders meant when they constructed this amendment. Since we have a fellow named Fox who is the state’s top prosecutor now running for governor, I believe a reasonable question is to ask him is if he believes in the sixth amendment as it was written and meant by our founders.
Dr. W. David Herbert
Billings
