Judging Ourselves

I, for one, will sleep well tonight knowing our judges and prosecutors stand ever-vigilant against the encroachment of compassion into our judicial proceedings (“Woman Guilty in Bankruptcy Fraud Case,” Feb. 7).

The sequestering of the Letantia Bussell jury to prevent its members from learning of her husband’s suicide and the dragging of the poor woman, not yet 24 hours bereaved, into court to hear her multiple guilty verdicts (would justice have been sullied by waiting a couple of days, for God’s sake, to let the widow collect herself?) does not display our judicial system at its finest. I have no reason to second-guess the jury; I assume the woman is guilty and, in fact, she may be a complete charlatan. That is not at issue. The question is: What are we?

Michael Wright

Irvine