[Jaded]

It does look hinky. An appeal? A conviction getting overturned? Or maybe if the jurors actually look at the testimony and follow the law, it guarantees an acquittal?

Recently I was talking to a 20+ year veteran on HPD about this case. He made a passing comment about how many innocent people are in prison. He laughed at my naivete and assured me that it was true. He said that sometimes it's just literally a matter of being in the wrong place and sometimes they decide it's you and then it's too late.

Prior to that conversation an atty at work was passing by and overheard a conversation with a co-worker about justice. He stopped and laughed and said that I was foolish to think that there was true justice in the system.

Shot down in flames...
My last 2 illusions, shattered. Maybe I should quit being jaded and just be harborsnoillusions?

[the-gooroo]

Very interesting. This case has forced me to rethink alot of my beliefs about the justice system.

[185JHP]

Have you seen the movie "Star Chamber"? It's a neat movie. Yaphet Kotto plays a detective, and in a bar scene explains that he could have "made" a case that wasn't there...