Justice: A Lawyerly Response

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No: HPFGUIDX 5906

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, heidi <heidi.h.tandy.c92 at a...> wrote:
> 
> 
> Peg Kerr wrote:
> as a
> lawyer, I was very interested in the "trial" scenes - given what we know
> about how Sirius ended up at Azkaban (i.e. NO trial), it seems that the
> rights of due process don't really exist in the Wizarding World - there's no
> right to a trial (if there was, then sirius would've had one - and 
	
	Since both Ron and Hermione are shocked to learn that Sirius was 
sentenced without trial, I assumed there *is* a right to trial in the 
wizarding world. GOF(27) I suspect the Ministry declared a state of 
emergency and imposed the wizard equivalent of martial law. 
	Or it could be that Sirius and others were considered insane and 
therefor not competent to stand trial.
	Pippin, who is not a lawyer and could be talking complete nonsense 
here.