Stroke of the pen, kindacool, done all the time.
It's the paper trail, not the truth.
We've got an example of just that sort of action right here in Indiana, in the case of a convicted drug felon and international drug smuggler who got caught by Customs and the Postal Inspectors trying to smuggle a shoebox containing more than a thousand pills into this country via the mail. Arrested by state police, the local prosecutor dropped the charge to felony possession, to which he plead guilty. The judge then delivered a misdemeanor sentence, of 180 days, suspended, plus a $163.00 fine and court costs. That was in 1992; a couple of months ago he passed his certification as an Indiana Police Officer, at which job he is now employed as a university cop.
The editor of the campus newspaper, Brooke Baker, began an investigation into the reputed payment of a $3000 bribe to the defendent's laywer, the prosecutor and the judge in the case. In September of 1997 she was found murdered and raped, and though she feared a university cop who was her landlord- and may have been a possible source of some of the information she had on the bribe- was a suspect, those details were kept from court testimony used to convict a scapegoat then used to *wrap up* another unsolved murder. Neat.
And hereabouts, we have a pretty good idea that not only our courts and the justice they dispense is for sale, but for how much.
Damn...
no word of that in the media either.
I once brought up a story of corruption in town, and the local paper seemed either embarassed or fearful of publishing my story
They simply watered it down to a case of "the courts proceeding too slowly and defects in the system" or something to that extent and bull crap.
There are huge confederate and corrupt powers in our judicial system in America, it's unbelievable. They have the power to officialize anything and anybody they want.
People are dumb enough to believe them too. Plenty of churches full of lawyers unfortunately who make friends with professionals who dare not criticize each other afterwards.
These people do not have a life anyways.