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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 16 2013 @ 09:45 AM EST |
| Genuine reform that is and not word play. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 24 2013 @ 06:26 PM EST |
What concerns me is the power given the federal prosecutor. How can it be
called justice when our federal gov seizes all the assets of a defendant (so
they can't be used in his defense) but proceeds to use the vast resources
provided by taxpayers to prosecute?? Perhaps back in Lincoln's day, lawyers
were roughly equal and had the same access to the available law books. But
today one prosecutor backed by legions of aids and all the money they want, can
run rings around a lone appointed lawyer who has multiple cases and is dealing
with hundreds of thousands of laws and prior cases. And yet the first things
the feds do is seize the defendants assets to prevent even that much of a
defense. Shouldn't there be laws that compel the defense to be on a par with the
prosecution, in resources, in time available, in assistance, in funding, and in
experience?
And then there is the travesty of "plea bargains". As it now stands,
when a prosecutor wants a feather in their cap and has caught at least one
person red-handed in a crime, they offer the GUILTY party a reduced sentence in
exchange for testimony against their target (for which they don't have any real
evidence, but they really want to add a "win" to advance their
career). What on earth does the guilty guy stand to loose for lying? on the
one hand, he knows he did it, he knows the evidence is there, and he knows the
sentence he ought to get. So when offered the chance to get off easy, what's
standing in his way? Because he's such a fine upstanding citizen that he would
never bring false testimony? This is the guy caught red-handed we're talking
about. Even if by some miracle, it eventually comes out that he lied, he can
lay it on the prosecution.
Plea bargains are nothing but a travesty of justice that serve to snare the
innocent in order to further someone's career.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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