OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE

摘要

I was rather amused this week by news from the United States, where an embarrassing design clanger resulted in a New Jersey courtroom being ruled "constitutionally defective" by a judge. The court, in Warren County, recently underwent a $7.5m renovation which included a poorly conceived support pillar in one of its courtrooms. The six inch-wide pillar is so badly located that it interferes with justice by obstructing the defendant's view of the jury and vice versa. Superior court judge Ann Bartlett softened the blow of her ruling by ' saying the new courtroom looks "lovely" even if it is at present unusable.