“”Justice has NOT been done. Our legal system does not mete out justice””
Darn! Until I ran across your post, I had completely forgotten seeing Allen Dershowitz on TV last week - whose show, I don’t recall - surfing around the 10 pm hour so it could have been CNN, FOX, HLN and I was trying to stay awake.
He said that the legal system is not about “truth or justice”. Whoever the host was (it could have been Piers Morgan), asked him what he meant and he had an answer and I should have written it down but I didn’t. I completely forgot it until just now but it jolted me from my drowsiness. I’ll google to see if there’s any mention of it anywhere.
Below are Alan Dershowitz’s remarks from last week... I didn’t get it exactly right but as well as I could remember it.. Interesting take.
“The prosecutor made the dreadful mistake of charging [Anthony] with first degree murder, essentially asking for the death penalty.” Dershowitz said that made the jury look very closely at the evidence for any conviction.
“We’ll never know as a result of this what happened,” Dershowitz concludes, “because a criminal trial is not a search for truth. It’s not a whodunit. In television there is always an outcome, we always know who did it. But in real life we often don’t know what happened.”
Please google
Wall St journal Allen Dershowitz....He clarifies the legalties in an article this week.