What up y’all, it’s me again. What I’m bringing to the audience today is a complicated subject: due process versus moral turpitude. Due process, of course, is one of our fundamental principles of the Constitution, but moral turpitude, on the other hand, is a legal terminology for officials that’s deceitful and commit fraudulent acts. For example, as I vigorously expressed, I was a juvenile offender, and the County Jail were other juvenile offenders awaiting trial for this particular case. The judge that presided over this case held a seminar for the youth offenders at this time, and which I was in attendance. Within the context of the seminar, the judge expressed the fairness of sentencing. Unlike other judges, when criminal defendants are found guilty in the court of law, this particularly was referred to with the bench trial in his courtroom. Enforceable by nature, a jury trial wasn’t optional for me anymore based on what the judge said to me in reference of the sentencing aspect if I was to be found guilty. Now let’s stop here.
The oppositional question is whether it’s a due process violation or a deceitful act. Every judge has a list called Canons, which is a code of ethics all judges must follow, or they face disbarment. Canon B2 is impropriety, or the appearance of improprieties. This consists of special treatment or favors or the appearance it can have. In my particular case, the judge loaded the dice with the seminar speech, then sentenced me to 30 to 60 years as a ‘I gotcha moment,’ although it appears we can merge the two. The fraudulent act is committed against the judge Canon responsibilities because he had to know some of the juveniles in the audience had to come before his court. In fact, some already has. He also must have known how influential a child mind could be, especially when their back is against the wall. And because he knew a judge’s legal obligation is to safeguard and protect the rights of the accused in his courtroom, he knew altering a criminal defendant’s autonomy was nothing less of a due process violation with this seminar. Moral turpitude is infidelity against our Constitution, and absent is due process. This is another reason that I ask for the support of the people, because what affects one of us affects all of us. Thank you all for your time. Christopher Hill, SCI Houtzdale.
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