From the article:
“at the federal level there is a conviction rate of over 90 percent”...
This is actually approaching the levels of Soviet-era “show trials”, where everyone involved, including the defendant, knew what the outcome of the trial would be well in advance of stepping into the courtroom. Really disturbing.
One day I had a couple of hours to kill and noticed it was trial day so decided to sit and watch a series of child support cases. At the end I was so disgusted that I don’t think that court even came up to the standard of a Kangaroo Kourt.
There were six female lawyers representing the Mothers. The young men, often with their families with them were just declared guilty by those lawyers. They would not even listen to the Fathers except to say something like “that doesn’t mean anything” when what he had was papers from the same state which was prosecuting him saying that he didn’t owe anything. The judge didn’t do anything. He just accepted whatever these state lawyers told him..
Absolutely criminal behaviors by the system.
“We Must Destroy All PC Lies”
Made much easier when the State/gov’t, having unlimited cash flow, can bankrupt the defendant whom tries to keep the family in their house, SOME $$ still in the bank, etc. if only to cop a plea to make the misery/harassment just END.
Let’s not even start the discussion re: impossible bail amounts or the ‘speedy’ trial (the Z case taking ~1yr!?....who could survive in prison that long, waiting, and still have anything left when they are finally ‘freed’)
Want to see some wailing and heads explode, propose FREE lawyers. Anymore they are as ‘needed’ as doctors, right? :)
The difference here in the Zimmerman trial is that clearly the members of the defense are not yet bought out by the state, as perhaps some lazy or overloaded Public Defenders might be.
This is actually approaching the levels of Soviet-era “show trials”, where everyone involved, including the defendant, knew what the outcome of the trial would be well in advance of stepping into the courtroom. Really disturbing.“at the federal level there is a conviction rate of over 90 percent”...
I know! Let’s prosecute more innocent people - that way we can get the conviction rate down as low as we want! </sarcasm>In real life we want a high conviction rate to happen - so long as it is because the only people who get prosecuted are people who are actually guilty as charged. The trouble is that, as we all know, in the George Zimmerman case nothing could be further from the truth. In this case we needed the jury to enter their deliberations, poll them selves, and turn on their heels and storm out, render a “not guilty” verdict - and go over and commiserate with George Zimmerman.Instead, poor George Zimmerman is somewhere pacing the floor and wondering if he will ever survive prison - and even if he does, how old will he be and what relationship will he have with his (childless?) wife?