Harry Potter Morning Light

The courtroom has always been a solemn place. Even the most rebellious rock musicians have to wear formal clothes when they are going to court, and keep quiet except for their speaking time.

When the judge in black robes appeared in the courtroom, everyone stood up, and no one else sat down until the judge sat down.

However, in most cases, the misdemeanor court does not go through this grand process. If a Manhattan bankruptcy judge who is used to the top of the pyramid understands spends a day in the misdemeanor court, he will definitely open his eyes—he will think that I went to the wrong place and came to a livestock auction house.

Unlike judges who try major criminal cases and bankruptcy cases, judges in misdemeanor courts have a huge workload, hearing dozens of cases a day.

Sometimes they don't go to court at all because it's too noisy, and sometimes they meet mentally ill prisoners who may not understand them at all. Moreover, the interrogation time of these cases was as long as one or two minutes, and as short as only a few tens of seconds, which was faster than the sentence for Sirius Black to be imprisoned. Some judges even directly suggested that the prisoner communicate with the prosecutor. Their offices are usually underground. After the transaction was completed, the defendant pleaded guilty in court.

It is unconstitutional to deny attorneys to defendants facing incarceration, but it is not just the Constitution and the judges who are being held in contempt in misdemeanor court, a system that The New York Times calls "cash register justice," and those that accompany it The private regulatory company is "Bounty Hounds". They are similar to the bounty hunters in western cowboy movies in that they have to complete difficult tasks for their employers to get rewards, but the "Bounty Hunters" fight against vicious cases. The "bounty hounds" will try to trick and threaten poor people who have no money to pay fines, such as putting you in jail if you don't pay back the money, or sending your daughter into the foster care system or something.

That scene was extremely cruel, like a hound killing a rabbit, it was not suitable for children to see. The single mother with a daughter, according to the benefits of the United States, she can receive a monthly allowance for the child, which is all her income. However, when the child becomes an adult, the money will be gone, and she will be discriminated against by other citizens, calling her a "welfare queen", which means a woman who is completely dependent on social welfare and assistance.

This is not the worst. The situation in the prison is also related to personal financial resources. Those poor people who really have no money to pay the fine will be locked in a prison with eight rooms, no toilets, and no privacy. Cindy was even "subletted" once, as the assets of a former probation supervision company to compensate for debts, as if the time had returned to the era of slave labor control 200 years ago.

Maybe a lot of people are working hard to improve America's welfare system, spending billions of dollars on education, health care, food stamps, housing, and financial assistance, but the misdemeanor system is making their efforts all for naught. Many people have used various means to deprive people who really need help of their welfare, and have taken over the work functions of some other welfare institutions through so-called "job training", drugs and psychological counseling, etc., leaving the victims in a deeper crisis. In the terrible exploitation and squeezing, it is a bit like the feeling of Orphan in the Twist, the head of the Orphan and his wife.

In the final analysis, those who need to rely on social welfare relief are poor people, they have no way to resist, and the young and strong male group is still capable of committing crimes. Anyway, if they have a criminal record, they will not be able to engage in a proper job, so they simply go all the way to the underworld. Now, the social stratification has intensified. It is possible for a normal person to suddenly find that a robber has come to his house one day, and was shot in the head from behind while checking the situation in the house.

The misdemeanor system perpetuates inequality and produces a particularly tragic injustice, and the key is that it lacks any accountability mechanism, so that this "radio justice" phenomenon exists under the institutional radar...

"Dingling clang."

Conseil suddenly stopped talking.

"Did you hear that?" asked Conseil.

Severus was also trying to discern where the voice was coming from.

"She also told me a joke," Gonseil said behind Severus' back. "There was a defendant who told the judge that he spent $100 a week on food. , because his girlfriend lives with him, the judge said, huh? You are covering her expenses, why don't you take that out, does she have a job? The defendant said, she is looking, the judge said, so you are in Responsible for her life? The defendant said yes, the judge said, why didn't she get a job? The defendant said, I don't know, I really don't know, and the judge said, then why did you let her live with you, in Are you eating and drinking here?"

Severus looked back at Conseil coldly.

"She's not coming back, is she?" said Conseil pitifully.

"She's a psychiatrist, how does she know as much as a lawyer?" Severus said coldly.

"Why do you believe her?" Conseil complained.

"As many men do in bars, why would he go out with the first woman in his life?" Severus asked suddenly annoyed.

"Where is your friend?" asked Conseil.

Severus just remembered, just as he was about to take out the communication crystal ball, the fig tree suddenly moved.

To be precise, it burst, just as suddenly as it appeared, and the fruits and branches fell to the ground and turned into blood clots.

"Look," said Conseil, pointing to something "like a stick."

Severus looked at the blood clots that hadn't dissipated on the ground, and carefully stepped forward in the gap between them. It didn't take long for him to see clearly that it was not a stick, but a tube of a pneumatic delivery device .

When he approached the pipe, there was a "rumbling" sound inside, followed by a "snap", as if something had been transmitted.

He carefully took out a glass rod from his deformed lizard skin pocket, poked it on the valve, and the lid opened, revealing a wooden box the size of a lipstick inside.

Severus took out the wooden box and opened it, which contained a small knife with a bee drawn in gold thread on the ebony handle.

"That's a red wine knife." Gong Saiyi walked over and said, "It's not lethal or threatening, it's just for opening red wine."

"He's dangerous." Severus opened the wine knife, revealing a not-so-sharp blade. "You think Napoleon has no lethality or threat?"

Before Conseil could speak, the surface of the mirror-like pool of mercury began to boil, and scorpions appeared again, and the blood clots became their eyes.

The drunken Sphinx wobbled to his feet, and jumped into the tunnel before it disappeared, and then the golden mirror on it also began to change, becoming transparent again, but it did not return to its original position, but Keeping the whole block slowly sinking.

Conseil immediately raised his wand, trying to use the Levitation Charm to keep it suspended in the air, but this huge glass weighed several tons, and he could not stop it with his own strength.

"Get out of the way, close your eyes." Severus said as he drew the bowstring, and a Confusion Charm was fired, which shattered the huge glass into pieces like a bullet, and made a loud noise at the same time.

"Are we going to restore the original state?" Conseil asked, looking at the broken glass all over the floor.

Severus looked at the scorpions all over the floor, they got into the ventilation pipe and disappeared in no time.

"Go find that woman," Severus said, put the wine knife away and put it in his jacket pocket, and left the Oval Hall.

Dare to ask this judge, do you know what a girlfriend does?