[Jezebelle]

"If you can't afford to investigate, you won't get justice from L.E. trust me."

That simply isn't true, and I am sick and tired of you making that claim based on your single experience out of the millions of cases investigated, brought and prosecuted or dropped for insufficient evidence each year in this country.

[abb]

This needs to be highlighted and used often. It is now part of the court record...

"What the defendants seek, and what they are entitled to under the Constitution, is a trial in a community which has not been polarized by pretrial publicity or torn apart by the circumstances of these cases," Friday's written motion said. "Regrettably, Durham is not that community."

Defense lawyers said The Herald-Sun was partially responsible.

"In its editorial positions, The Herald-Sun has relentlessly condemned the Duke lacrosse team and encouraged a prosecution of the defendants in these cases," attorneys wrote. "In its first significant editorial on these cases, The Herald-Sun stated that not only had a crime occurred, but that those present during the crime were guilty of an additional 'outrage' by not confessing to the crime."

[Constitutions Grandchild]

Jezebelle, while you may be hurt by my frequent references to the matter, you would be shocked to find out how little cases are investigated in this country. When I got sick yesterday because Nifong said he was unaware of the full DNA report results, it was because it was so incredibly our experience.

The Court system is so clogged with ridiculous, spurious, ill-conceived and major criminal cases, that more times, than not, no one has the time to look at the evidence and make a judgment call that even a simple-minded child could make. Once in the system, there is no advocate to look out for you. Of course, you might say, that's why you get to hire an attorney who is also overburdened and sometimes disengaged from years of exposure to the worst in mankind and has many people whose plight is even worse than yours.

To say that L.E. is not doing their job is due to a character flaw is a major jump to a conclusion I do not draw, nor intend to lead this group of concerned. What I'm saying is our system is fundamentally flawed by the overload and spurious (yes, and sometimes disingenuous agendas) of many individuals.

The nice officer who advised my son to take a plea, having gotten my son's signature on the dotted line, then had the gall to tell him that "the justice system had failed him". L.E.'s words, not mine. That is what I am telling all of you. You will have to go out and hire your own team at great, burdensome, financially devastating expense to obtain the justice you deserve. Not because L.E. are a bunch of criminally negligent jerks themselves, but because there aren't enough of them to go around and do the job.

Now, take a deep breath and give it a rest, Jezebelle. This is true all over the U.S. and elsewhere it's worse. Get over my claim, because I do know I'm right on this one. I, too, have family in the L.E. business, and they are all complaining they can't cover all the stupid jerks who want their neighbors arrested for peeing off the back porch when there are real, real bad guys out there they need to attend to.

[Fido969]

I am sick and tired of you making that claim based on your single experience out of the millions of cases investigated

Well, it was 100% of the cases she was involved with.