[jdub]

criminal law is a dirty business on either side. prosecutors have to prosecute those they believe don't deserve to be punished, and defense lawyers have to defend those they know to be guilty. But it is a price worth paying for a system based on the notion that it is better that the guilty go free than the innocent punished, and that the State must prove its case rather than the defendant prove himself innocent.

I still say the fault lies first with the prosecutor for a lackluster prosecution, and second with the jury who gave in to the two women who (allegedly) stated at the start of deliberations they would convict of nothing higher than manslaughter.

[Uncle Ike]

” a system based on the notion that it is better that the guilty go free than the innocent punished, and that the State must prove its case rather than the defendant prove himself innocent. “

According to Bill O Reilly and the gaggle of (female) ‘legal experts’ that infest FNC, this is no longer in force.....