I agree. I don't think there's a really good solution... the best I can think of is one that provides for severe penalties to judges, prosecutors, police, and witnesses if it is found that someone was wrongly convicted or unjustly punished because of their participatory acts. Something like, they receive the punishment the accused would have/did receive.
Objectivity needs to be enforced. Tom C. On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:24 AM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom C" > Subject: Re: Fw: Bob Shell innocent? > > > Frank wrote: > >> Despite what some think the justice system works pretty damned well >> most of the time. We hear about the "travesties of justice" all the >> time because they make sensational news, but day in day out the guilty >> usually get convicted and the innocent usually go free. > > Just pointing one thing out. That's an easy statement to make until > you are the person wrongly convicted or unjustly sentenced. THEN the > justice system, regardless of how well it has worked in on a case by > case basis, is a piece of crap. > > "Better one hundred guilty men go free than one innocent man be > condemned." - Thomas Jefferson > > > --------------------------------------- > > Under our system of justice, innocence or guilt really doesn't matter all > that much, except to the degree that one's life is ruined by the system. > Spending 20 years proving your innocence after a bad conviction isn't > exactly the same as going free. > > William Robb > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
