Really whack, and here I was thinking saving some of those stories about what was going on in Durham was a good thing. It’s amazing how some people can make a alternate reality to what whatever they read.
In their defense, they deal with stupid, lackwitted gobspittles who barely have enough sense to hitch up their baggy pants and think they are some gangsta bad_sses. They see these monsters-in-the-making parade through the court system and think "if you are here, you are guilty of what you are charged with, or something worse." The problem is, they are USUALLY right. So they manufacture evidence, suppress evidence, lie, and suborn perjury, and no one objects because they ARE getting the hoodlums off the street. The real problem comes in one of two ways:
1) A kid like my friend's brother gets railroaded (and this kid was NOT a banger wannabee) and spends 10 years locked up for a crime it was PROVEN he did not commit or
2) The DA tries the same stupid stuff- for political motives - with some rich white kids with money to fight him.
Then the rock gets turned over and the bugs scurry.