Yesterday, 10:18 AM
(Yesterday, 09:05 AM)aussiefriend Wrote: Yeh rothschild, but what if they both did do the murders, or even one, and you are defending murderers? That's where I am coming from. We don't want to see another OJ situation. Especially these young people that had their whole lives. It's so tragic.
Criminal justice is as corrupt as politics. There's tremendous pressure to dispose of cases quickly because the system has a massive backlog, which is where plea bargaining comes in. Thorough investigation is the exception, not the rule. A prosecutor's career goes nowhere if they don't get convictions without expending large amounts of resources. Poor people are the grist in a mill that has very little to do with justice, but it's a crapshoot for all average people who are innocent, because you're not actually presumed to be innocent unless proven guilty; you're guilty unless you prove your innocence -- unless you happen to be one of the special people who're well-connected and can afford competent legal council, like John and Patsy Ramsey, or Kate and Gerry McCann, who hooked up with a PR firm instead of helping to search for Madeline.
Something else to consider is that if a person is convicted of a crime they did not commit, not only has a life needlessly been destroyed, the guilty person remains at large.