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Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-06-24 | Page 4 | Crime and Punishment

Type issue
Date 1933-06-24
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title Crime and Punishment
Type article
Date 1933-06-24
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 4
OCR Text i t t. t CRIME AND PUNISHMENT I STRiCT ATTORNEY CALVIN W. W RAWLINGS RAWLINGS RAWLINGS RAW- RAW D DISTRICT LINGS told Utah's peace officers in convention convention con con- at Richfield T Thursday that with felonies committed in Salt Lake last year ear only prosecutions resulted Of these there were ere only 36 convictions Mr r. Rawlings blames three things He lie says w we we are arc using antiquated laws Jaws the public fails to to cooperate a and d officers fail ai to obtain evi dence sufficient for a 8 conviction There are many many things which Mr rr Rawlings c c could uld have added to his list Chief among them is the break breakdown of the penal sy system tem which turns hardened criminals loose upon completion of only fractions of even lenient sentences and many times for far absurd and trivial reasons Almost ranking with this is the failure of prosecutor judge and jury to give society equal consider consideration tion with that extended ex cx- I tended to accused persons To charge the public with lack of cooperation cooperation cooperation tion is to repeat what has been droned into the ears of poor old John Public since the memory of man runn th not to the contrary contra In what respects does the public fail to cooperate co co- f operate The public is so dumb you know It must have a list of its shortcomings The p public is pretty good at heart and nd we are sure that if it is furnished with a list of the things it should do to furnish t this is wanted cooperation tion it will wilt cheerfully do all of them Why we e have so many antiquated laws is hard to determine We keep electing lawyers r lawmaking O. O bodies by battalions and if they do nothing about it what are the common people peo- peo le to do I 1 They pass enough new laws and tinker sufficiently with the old ones to give th the impression to the layman that the situation situa situa- ti non tion ii is being improved As As to the failure of officers to gather sufficient sufficient suf suf- evidence With which to convict that appears to be the fault of those who are are supposed sup sup- pos posed d to train them If H the states state's hired attorneys attorneys attorneys at at- could point out just what should bed be bedone d done the about it perhaps police detectives and sheriffs sheriff's s men would be apt pupils Theres There's an opportunity for cooperation r. r Rawlings might also have nave touched upon pon the matter of winking at the law on the thep p ii part rt of some of those who are paid for doing I exactly the opposite There is abundant abundant evid evi- evi d We that it is done and nd yet nobody in an 5 o official fi i position ion seeing ceni to th e ever er d do anything t about it i s I A- A I J I f J j Y J
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