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Justice Delayed in the Eric Garner Case

Whither the vigorous pursuit of justice in the Garner case? At some point—and perhaps we are past it already—justice delayed is justice denied.

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The ideal expressed in the legal maxim “Justice delayed is justice denied” is deeply ingrained in our jurisprudence and comes to us from the Old Testament. The book of Exodus recounts how Moses was advised to appoint the most able Israelites that they might “judge the people in all seasons” lest litigants suffer injustices owing to delay because no judges were available to hear their cases. Notwithstanding the expression of this noble sentiment from biblical days to our own, we have come to accept delay in our current justice system as routine. But delay in one “recent” case stands out from all the rest, is anything but routine, and, at this point, is simply beyond the pale: the case of Eric Garner, the African-American man who died in police custody while being arrested for a petty offense.

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