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Show oo CAM INETTI AND DIGGS CASE. What has been done with the Cam-inettl-DIggs case, which held the attention at-tention of the people three years ago? Here is the answer from the Sacramento Sacra-mento Bee: "Over three years ago Maury Diggs and Drew CaminettI were arrested ar-rested for offenses against two young girls of Sacramento which brought them under the hand of the Federal government. Their trials were held in San Francisco, they were judged guilty by the jury and sentenced to the Federal Prison at McNeil's island by the judge. But today to-day both Caminetti and Diggs are still pursuing the pleasures of life without having spent a single day in Jail in atonement for their wrong and In punishment for their crime. Not for three or four weeks more will the case come up for final argument and disposition bofore the United States supreme court in Washington. It may even then be postponed and put over until a later date, as has already been done before. It Is such mockery mock-ery of justice as this that instills into tne minds of many people that there i is one law the wealthy and another law for the poor. "Certainly three years is a ridiculous ridic-ulous time, enough to make the blinded blind-ed Goddess of Justice laugh, for the determination of mooted technical points in these cases where the clear- ; cut question of their guilt was decid-1 J ed in the lower court without a shad- ow of dispute. Judicial reform in , this country is one of the most necessary neces-sary reformations of government 5 needed today. It is a crying shame that such men as Diggs and Caminet- 1 tl can flout the law and evade their just deserts by technicalities, quib-blings, quib-blings, appeals, postponements, and ( delays of all sorts for three long v years. The United States supremo court should bring the Diggs-Camin-etti cases to a quick close and end what has become a judicial scandal." nn |
