Hamlet, while famously contemplating suicide, poetically bemoans “the law’s delay, the insolence of office” (Hamlet, Act III Scene 1).
The prince of Denmark was right as rain about the insolence of office. We still see it daily, no matter who’s in officialdom or in what context. As for the law’s delay, though, one must seriously question whether, in the context of a criminal case, it is the individual being prosecuted who is typically troubled by a prosecution’s delay.
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