A judicial tribunal or assembly that blatantly disregards recognized standards of law or justice, and often carries little or no official standing in the territory within which it resides. The term may also apply to a court held by a legitimate judicial authority who intentionally disregards the court’s legal or ethical obligations. It is often held to give the appearance of a fair and just trial, even though the verdict has in reality already been decided before the trial has begun. This could be because of the biases of the decision-maker, or because the structure and operation of the forum result in an inferior brand of adjudication. A common example of this is when institutional disputants (“repeat players”) have excessive and unfair structural advantages over individual disputants (“one-shot players”).
Although the term kangaroo court has been erroneously explained to have its origin from Australia’s courts while it was a penal colony, the first published instance is from an American source in a collection of magazine articles by Philip Paxton (the pen name of Samuel Adams Hammett), which were published in 1853 under the title of A stray Yankee in Texas:
“By a unanimous vote, Judge G– was elected to the bench and the ‘Mestang’ or ‘Kangaroo Court’ regularly organized.”
Some sources suggest that it may have been popularized during the California Gold Rush of 1849, along with mustang court, as a description of the hastily carried-out proceedings used to deal with the issue of claim jumping miners. Ostensibly the term comes from the notion of justice proceeding “by leaps”, like a kangaroo – in other words, “jumping over” (intentionally ignoring) evidence that would be in favor of the defendant. Another possibility is that the phrase could refer to the pouch of a kangaroo, meaning the court is in someone’s pocket. The phrase is popular in the UK, US, Australia and New Zealand and is still in common use.
Some scholars trace its origin to the historical practice of itinerant roving judges on the U.S. frontier, who were paid on the basis of how many trials they conducted, and in some instances their salary depended on the fines from the defendants they convicted. The term kangaroo court comes from the image of these judges hopping from place to place, guided less by concern for justice than by the desire to wrap up as many trials as the day allowed.
We Build the Wall’s Tim Shea was convicted yesterday in another kangaroo court in New York City in front of an Obama Judge. It’s likely Shea will appeal because the DOJ withheld information that would have exonerated Shea in the case. The walls of justice in the United States have fallen. When will Americans wake up and see that Obama Judges and the DOJ do not represent justice? Today’s DOJ and certain judges represent injustice for the majority of Americans who are God, family and country-loving people. FOX News in Colorado reported: A Colorado businessman was convicted Friday of charges ...
Judge Carl Nichols lectured Steve Bannon before sentencing him to 4 months in federal prison and fined him $6500 for not speaking with Pelosi-Cheney Moscow Show Trial. Judge Nichols is knocking down Bannon's "executive privilege" argument — Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) October 21, 2022 More… Judge says it "cuts in Mr. Bannon's favor" that the committee didn't go to court to enforce its subpoena, but sought out prosecution — Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) October 21, 2022 Steve was sentenced to four months in prison. Judge Carl Nichols sentences Bannon to FOUR MONTHS prison.. $6500 fine — Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) October 21, ...
Political operative Roger Stone was convicted on all 7 counts against him today by a jury containing other operatives in an area that voted over 90 percent for Hillary Clinton. NBC reports: Republican operative Roger Stone was found guilty Friday of all seven counts against him, including witness tampering and making false statements. … His sentencing was set for Feb. 6, and he faces up to 20 years in prison. The jury deliberated for two days. The trial took place in Washington, DC, a city that voted 90.9 percent for Clinton. Stone’s former client, Donald Trump, received just 4.1 percent ...
The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000. Of 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory’s microscopic hair comparison unit, 26 overstated forensic matches in ways that favored prosecutors in more than 95 percent of the 268 trials reviewed so far, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and the Innocence Project, which are assisting the government with the country’s largest post-conviction review of ...
Schaeffer Cox, a well known 2nd Amendment lobbyist who had won 38% of the vote in a State House election, became the subject of an intense FBI investigation after he angered State and Federal authorities by openly accusing them of drug trafficking and child prostitution. Oil pipeline service company executive, Bill Allen, who had been spared prosecution on multiple counts of sexual abuse of minors in exchange for his 2008 testimony against pro-2nd Amendment Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, was among those implicated. “The State Wide Drug Taskforce supplied children for sex to a number of state and federal officials ...
The Dachau tribunal was composed of eight senior U.S. military officers with the rank of at least full colonel. The president of the court, Brig. Gen. John M. Lentz, was the former commanding general of the 3rd Army’s 87th Infantry Division.[2] These U.S. military officers, with no formal legal training, were not qualified to objectively review the evidence presented in the trial. William Denson, the chief prosecuting attorney, used a legal concept called “common design” for establishing that camp personnel at Dachau were guilty of violating the laws and usages of war. The Dachau tribunal accepted Denson’s legal concept of ...
Following the defeat at the Battle of Falkirk and his resignation as Guardian of Scotland, William Wallace's role in the Scottish resistance changed. He became less of a military leader and more of a diplomat, seeking to garner international support for Scotland's cause. However, he remained a symbol of defiance against English rule and a target for English forces. Wallace's capture came about in 1305, a result of betrayal by a Scottish knight, Sir John Menteith. He was arrested near Glasgow and immediately transported to London, where he was put on trial. The charges against him were severe: treason against King Edward ...
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