David L. Bazelon

You can fight over how to interpret them, but you can't deny the prosecutors were meeting secretly with the judges.

The third judge is the chief judge of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, David Bazelon.

And he's in on these alleged meetings too.

Go down the left side of the triangle and you get to the Congress.

Now, yeah, some of these institutions were indefensible, and that was established in federal court repeatedly and on the record.

1966, in Rouse against Cameron, Judge Bazelon held that continuing failure to provide suitable and adequate treatment cannot be justified by lack of staff or facilities.

In 71, in Wyatt against Stickney, a federal court in Alabama held that involuntarily committed patients have constitutional right to treatment, giving a realistic opportunity to be cured.

or to improve, and wrote out detailed standards to that effect.