I agree that convicting innocent people is probably much more common that is generally believed. The Prosecutors who do this are power-hungry, lawyer-politicians, who must convict in order to keep their job (or advance to higher office). Can you think of any worse combination than a lawyer-politician that can take your freedom or even your life from you?”
At least one of them is running for President right now and another one from the same state is trying very hard to follow him. We need to have Persecutors held accountable. Those who have been proved to have convicted an innocent person should spend an equal time in jail.
“I can’t imagine what they do to people who do not have the resources to defend themselves.”
They go to jail. Or they get a court-appointed attorney, who meets them for the first time at the trial, and then they go to jail.
The job of DA is a natural magnet for psychopaths and should be abolished. There are two basic parts to any effective solution to these seemingly unfixable problems with our judicial system: We need to get rid of the “war on drugs”, and we need to get rid of the adversarial system of justice and the job of professional prosecutor. It should not be hard to devise a better system than we presently have.