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That is the "legal" system at work in the United States. Having spent time at tax payer expense for some frivolous crime for which I paid a high price, I met many prisoners and heard their stories, read the legal cases and came to the conclusion that many (not most, but many) people incarcerated are either innocent of the things they were convicted of or technically guilty of some minor part but certainly not deserving of harsh sentences. And I'm not even talking about those with child-sex related crimes. The legal system is built up for the prosecution, defendants have very few rights, and the few that they do have are constantly being struck down. It's a David v. Goliath system, with most folk being David. I know one poster in particular likes to come to the defense of this shitty, evil system and berate us for lashing out at it, but it is BULLSHIT. The article in this case actually comes as no surprise to me. Nobody should ever have any faith that somehow their rights will be protected (or even that they have any rights) or that somehow "justice" will win out once ensnared in this evil process. The best they can hope for is to make it out alive, sane and in one piece afterward, enough to abandon the entire shitty country and its evil institutions. Yes, sometimes people get lucky and manage to "get off" but they are in the small minority. |