Comments on: No Risk of Due Process with DMV License Suspensions http://www.duiblog.com/2006/02/25/no-risk-of-due-process-with-dmv-license-suspensions/ Bad Drunk Driving Laws, False Evidence and a Fading Constitution Mon, 20 May 2013 23:19:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: jalexson0@netscape.net http://www.duiblog.com/2006/02/25/no-risk-of-due-process-with-dmv-license-suspensions/comment-page-1/#comment-56 jalexson0@netscape.net Tue, 07 Mar 2006 08:12:28 +0000 http://duiblog.level2hosting.com/?p=311#comment-56 <a></a>That's even worse then the situation in Kansas in which drivers arrested by local police are tried before a "judge" who is essentially an independent contractor retain by the city to operate the municipal "court" whose purpose is the raise revenue for the city.  The courts are not authorized by the Kansas constitution and the relationship between the city governing body and the "judge" (really just a Justice of the Peace with all the connotations associated with that title) is such that the fair trail guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution will only happen by accident.  A :judge who doesn't bring in sufficient revenue could be replaced or have the city eliminate the court as a money losing venture. I have an article on this at: <a href="http://www.dwightseffort.com/content/view/161/" rel="nofollow">http://www.dwightseffort.com/content/view/161/</a> That’s even worse then the situation in Kansas in which drivers
arrested by local police are tried before a “judge” who is essentially
an independent contractor retain by the city to operate the municipal
“court” whose purpose is the raise revenue for the city.  The
courts are not authorized by the Kansas constitution and the
relationship between the city governing body and the “judge” (really
just a Justice of the Peace with all the connotations associated with
that title) is such that the fair trail guaranteed by the U.S.
Constitution will only happen by accident.  A :judge who doesn’t
bring in sufficient revenue could be replaced or have the city
eliminate the court as a money losing venture.
I have an article on this at:

http://www.dwightseffort.com/content/view/161/

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