The horns of a Dilemma Truth vs Justice. Conrad Black

It is unfortunately telling right and wrong can be obfuscated by the high towers of a legal system. Line upon line, brick upon brick, the legal system stretches back to the Magna Carta as its foundation. Then as we see demonstrated here, we erect perilous towers by our intellect. Judges are not to be faulted by trying to keep them erect. They have agreed after all, to play by the rules--even though the rules boiled down to an appeal granted. What would be more troubling, would be to invent new rules or set aside precedent at the whim of a judge. We can't make law to punish someone because we can't find a law to so in the first place. Instead we build them higher: more lofty with twisty staircases.
It is a pity, however, that such justice are toppling towers and failing ruins on a foundation we once called truth and integrity.