There’s an episode of I, Claudius titled "Some Justice," in which a trial is held in the Senate to bring to justice those responsible for the death of Claudius’s brother, Germanicus.
The machinations of Roman politics being what they are . . . er, were . . . in the end only "some justice" is done.
That episode came to mind as I read
One EXCERPT:
Mr. Freedman said Mr. Nifong, 56, a prosecutor for nearly 29 years, would have never risked his law license and career on hiding DNA evidence that he knew the defense would find.
F. Lane Williamson, chairman of the ethics panel, responded that “there is no rational explanation sometimes” for unethical or illegal behavior. “I don’t know if we’ll ever know,” he said.
Actually, Thomas Sowell doesn’t think that Nifong’s actions were at all inexplicable. He thinks there is a perfectly clear and logical, if evil, reason for them.

