Posted on 08/22/2010 5:35:46 AM PDT by abb
This has the chance to discredit police and set murderers free (along with the innocents who have been wrongly convicted based on this corruption). Trust me, the news couldn't care less about the innocent (outside the damage this does to the justice system)... they are overjoyed that criminals have a chance to beat the rap...
There is no North Carolina “justice system.” It is a collection of black-robed Mafia Dons, along with gun-toting knee-cappers who masquerade as cops. And they are aided by lawyers who use it as a revolving money machine to extract tribute from a public who is too intimidated to fight back.
For over four years (ever since The Duke Lacrosse Frame blew up) I have carefully kept up with North Carolina’s set up. Long ago I concluded that Louisiana’s justice system is cleaner and more honest that that of North Carolina.
And that’s saying something.
Yes, but who watches the hen house? They are only beholden to the Bar and who controlls the Bar? Look at how long it took the Duke LX kids to get aquitted of their charges, and how much money was spent by their families defending them against a stacked deck.
I have said it before and will contine to do so. The judicial system in this country has gone from what was intended to be the forum to decide right from wrong. Sadly it has turned into nothing more than a life support system to the barrister class.
As a litigant in a civil case or two, I always wondered what business it was of the court as to how much each side had paid or agreed to pay their attorneys before a judgement is given. It should have no pertinence to the case and it should be a post judgement issue to determine who pays what based from the decision.
If this is true and the Prosecutors involved knew about it they should be indicted on charges of Murder in the First Degree.
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I live in Raleigh and have been reading this series. It’s by Joe Neff who is the reporter who finally got the N&O on the straight and narrow about Mangum and Nifong.
And interestingly enough, the NC SBI DNA’s report said there was no DNA on Mangum. It was why Nifong went and hired (at taxpayer expense) a private lab that could run a more sensitive test.
It’s simple. As far as the bleeding heart N&O is concerned, almost everyone is falsely imprisoned. If they can get some guilty people out of jail they’ll be happy. Every time I hear a falsely imprisoned man has been freed, I celebrate. However, my happiness is destroyed by the realization that some other man got away with it.
I’m optimistic that this thing will help collapse the house of cards that is the North Carolina ‘justice system.’
Some Crime Lab—sitting around all day with their thumbs up their asses!
They should all go to jail.
“Forensic science” is largely a joke to begin with. Aside from DNA identification, which was developed by actual scientists, most areas of forensic science were developed by cops, with predictable results. Ballistic matching, “hair and fibers”, blood spatter analysis, and even fingerprinting have little basis in actual science.
Yet, because of shows like CSI, juries take forensic evidence as gospel. Hopefully, stories like this will lead to a wider re-examination of our criminal justice system’s reliance on junk science.
They sure didn’t teach me that in law school.
I like how about half the space in this article is given to protecting Roy Cooper’s reputation.
Hahahahahahahahahaha.
Forensic evidence in and of itself is not “gospel”. However, it is used to build a case to beyond the point of “reasonable doubt”. One fingerprint won’t get someone convicted, but couple it with hair, footprints, tire tracks, unique clothes fibers, etc., etc., and you can be “reasonably certain” that someone has done a crime. It is most certainly NOT a “joke”.
Exept, apparently, in the case of my own state’s blood analysis lab.
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