It’s a sad change over the past 20 years or so.
Agreed. Between this and civil forfeiture, my confidence in the justice system has been demolished. I used to be for the death penalty, but I no longer trust the system to apply it fairly. The police are in it to arrest people and prosecutors are in it to convict them. Actual guilt is not something they care about. More and more, it makes me ashamed of our system.
“More and more, it makes me ashamed of our system.”
Twenty years ago a lawyer laughed in my face when I proposed “right and wrong” as reasons to do something.