Since the time of Thurgood Marshall the Federal Judiciary has been an enclave of law professors with only academic knowledge of the theory of how the law should work and former prosecutors who know full well how the law works in practice and how it works in favor of the prosecution. To restore even a modicum of balance to the system in regards to the rights of the accused we must be fair in appointing judges with some experience in effectively defending the rights of the accused rather than only those whose experience lies merely in pontificating on the theoretical rights of the accused and those whose interests have been primarily seeing to it that the rights of the accused do not stand in the way of securing convictions for the accused.



