What is Court Corruption?

Court Corruption. It might look like a lawyer walking into the judge’s chambers with a briefcase full of cash and leaving without one.

It is usually more subtle than that.

Let’s look to my new favorite book: “The Student’s Reference Dictionary”, an abridged version of Noah Webster’s “American Dictionary of English Language”, 1847.

Corruption: 1. The act of corrupting, or state of being corrupt or putrid; the destruction of the natural form of bodies, by the separation of the component parts, or by disorganization, in the process of putrefaction. Thou wilt not suffer thy Holy One to see corruption. – Ps. xvi.

7. Bribery. He obtained his suit by corruption.

8. In law, taint; impurity of blood, in consequence of an act of attainder of treason or felony, by which a person is disabled to inherit lands from an ancestor, nor can retain those in his possession, nor transmit them by descent to his heirs.

Hey, that opens up the definition of corruption to a whole lot of common-place scenarios.

On a personal level, Judge Susan Weaver of Searcy County Arkansas allowed Mike Pietrczak and William White to commit fraud, the consequence which was taking possession of land from me and my descendants.

On the grander scale, when people oppress other people through battery and even murder, then take the oppressed people’s right to possession of land, that is corruption in the legal system. Even before there was a law on the books that made slavery or genocide “illegal”.

A corrupt court is a court that allows for manifest injustice.