Posted on 08/19/2011 8:15:35 AM PDT by DCBryan1
“Being locked up entails being suspected of a crime in the first place, and being arrested, and beng tried, and being convicted. So far me and mine have avoided all such entanglements as far back as anyone can recall. It’s actually fairly easy to do, although fewer and fewer bother with it since the courthouses installed revolving doors. I’m far more concerned about the damnable guilty roaming free, of which there are thousands upon thousands, than I am about my miniscule chance of being accidentally caught in the gears of the “system”. “
How do you spell “naïveté” free republic style? See above. Why not google “John Kaza” to see an example of how out of the blue, people can be arrested, held without reasonable bail, and tortured with permanent injuries without a smidgeon of credible evidence.
You’re not unintelligent, sir, just naive. Sure there is recourse to courts in some cases, but they can only give money. Around here we believe in the Constitution and the principles set forth therein, and one saying coming from those principles is “Better 10 guilty go free than one innocent be imprisoned wrongly.”
Perhaps you are a fan of a leader of the 30’s who promised to eliminate crime. He did by rounding up everyone who had ever been even charged with crime. You could leave your doors open even if you lived in a big city like Los Angeles, er, no make that Berlin....oh wait, nevermind.
We were on our way back to Little Rock when we heard they were released.
My wife knew a lot more about it than I did since her hometown is an hour west of West Memphis and her mother was always filling her in.
It seemed they rushed the prosecution 18 years ago, mostly because one of the three supposedly confessed. Being Arkansas, they probably didn’t want to spend the money (more expensive back then and not as reliable) on DNA test.
So now they agreed to “acknowledge” their “guilt” based on the prosecution evidence in order to be declared “innocent” by the court. ? Huh ?
The local news stations in Little Rock were reporting this was a way for the state to cover their butts in a law suit.
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