Posted on 11/10/2013 6:35:46 PM PST by nickcarraway
No mention of Harry Baals. Was Mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana. I tink the town renamed the street it had named in his honor.
Had a friend that named his daughter Ginger Snapp.
The system isn’t flawed, it’s the corrupt cops and prosecutors that lead people into thinking it is flawed.
If prosecutors turned over ALL the evidence required by the constitution, wrongful convictions would be few and far between.
Because prosecutors are corrupt, the evidence would have to be overwhelming before I would vote for a death penalty.
You people disgust me.
Ron, what happened was a grave miscarriage of justice, and everyone here knows it. It's a major downer. Especially in these troubled times (augmented by Obama), some things are so depressing that people want some relief from it. Ever hear of comic relief or gallows humor? You must be a real killjoy at parties. Kash Register -- ha, ha!
Interesting, normally when I say something like I did in this thread, I am usually attacked as a liberal or something.
Some/many hardline Republicans think all is well with the system. I guess in part because they have never experienced the tactics of the prosecution.
Our system is not a system that a innocent man wants to fall into.
I guess in a way I am a bit more liberal in this one area only, because I have seen a number of injustices, not necessarily to me, yes I had one bad experience that went my way at the end, but only by the skin of my teeth
Just look at George Zimmerman, yes he got off, and rightly so, but really because he lucked out with a jury that managed to do the right thing, but could have gone the other way, the judge was in tank with prosecution
Just one of many examples
Also politicians running to be tough on crime, enact legislation that prevents a honest judge from being able to give out a proper sentence, perhaps sending a harmless girl to prison for life in some cases
So yes perhaps I am liberal a bit in this one area only
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