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A few days ago, we had a discussion on the number---percent---of innocent sex offenders in prison. In keeping with that theme, here is a good article that addresses many of the things we were discussing.
I realize this article is not solely about sex offenses, but many of your false convictions are indeed bogus rape or sexual assault charges.
Another reason I posted this article---along with the one I posted a day or so ago----was for people to understand the system and how it is not geared to protect the innocent but to convict everyone regardless of their guilt or innocence.
I know, as I went through the system and dealt with corrupt cops.
I also want folks to know the kind of people they are dealing with when they are looking at criminal charges. The police and the prosecutors are ruthless and will do anything for a conviction.
Maybe someone can read this and if their family is ever accused of a crime it might make them understand how important it is to NOT talk to anyone in law enforcement without an attorney present.
I know many of the posters here have loved ones who didn't know any better and talked to the police while under investigation, which just made things much worse for them. Keep your mouth shut when the cops want to question you if you are a suspect.
Also do not allow your children to talk to the cops either. I don't know how many cases I could point to in which a person literally talked themselves into prison by trying to talk to the police or "tell their side of the story."
Just remember, it is your CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT not to talk to the police. Exercise your rights!!!!!!!!!!
Hope this helps. Here is the link-------------
http://tinyurl.com/mmhqzvz
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I realize this article is not solely about sex offenses, but many of your false convictions are indeed bogus rape or sexual assault charges.
Another reason I posted this article---along with the one I posted a day or so ago----was for people to understand the system and how it is not geared to protect the innocent but to convict everyone regardless of their guilt or innocence.
I know, as I went through the system and dealt with corrupt cops.
I also want folks to know the kind of people they are dealing with when they are looking at criminal charges. The police and the prosecutors are ruthless and will do anything for a conviction.
Maybe someone can read this and if their family is ever accused of a crime it might make them understand how important it is to NOT talk to anyone in law enforcement without an attorney present.
I know many of the posters here have loved ones who didn't know any better and talked to the police while under investigation, which just made things much worse for them. Keep your mouth shut when the cops want to question you if you are a suspect.
Also do not allow your children to talk to the cops either. I don't know how many cases I could point to in which a person literally talked themselves into prison by trying to talk to the police or "tell their side of the story."
Just remember, it is your CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT not to talk to the police. Exercise your rights!!!!!!!!!!
Hope this helps. Here is the link-------------
http://tinyurl.com/mmhqzvz
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I had no idea. I am embarassed again by my country's leaders and their 'bright ideas', and my self for drinking the damned Kool-Aid a the time... pffft
i keep repeating myself in saying that there is no justice in this country.
Let's say there are cops that are trustworthy and aren't trying to screw you over, they exist, I've met some while registering. Even if you can trust that one police officer, can you trust his/her friends? And the real question is can you trust the DA? The answer is no. You cannot.
Shut up, and leave if they don't have PC.
Off my pedestal on that.
'The system isn't geared to discover innocence or guilt — it's geared to get people through the system as quickly and efficiently as possible.'
Perhaps that is a problem, do we really believe te idea it's better to let 10 guilty people go free than to punish one innocent man? No, clearly we do not, we don't care about the travesty of justice that is putting an innocent person behind bars!
"Thanks to the "criminalization of everything," almost three times as many felony cases enter the court system today as they did 25 years ago. If every one of those cases went to trial, the justice system would quickly collapse under the load. Thus, more than 96 percent of all cases end in a plea bargain."
Again what is wrong with this country?
Because of all of these new cases DA's have to convince you to take a plea if not the whole system would crash. So they stack up the charges a mile high to force you to plead down. How dare you want your day in court? If you do that they go to trial with that mile high list of charges and if you lose, you get those ridiculous sentences for 90 years.
"No one can be forced to accept a plea bargain; the right to a trial is guaranteed by the US Constitution. However, a pernicious phenomenon called the "trial penalty" dissuades many defendants from exercising it. The federal conviction rate is an astonishing 97 percent, and studies have shown that defendants who refuse plea bargains are put behind bars for roughly nine times as long as those who take deals. (Twelve of the inmates exonerated by the Innocence Project were threatened with the death penalty before deciding to plead guilty.) As one former US Attorney told Human Rights Watch (HRW) last year, "If you reject the plea, we'll throw everything at you. We won't think about what is a 'just' sentence."
What is wrong with this country?
"As federal judge Jed Rakoff wroterecently in the New York Review of Books, "The Supreme Court's suggestion that a plea bargain is a fair and voluntary contractual arrangement between two relatively equal parties is a total myth: It is much more like a 'contract of adhesion' in which one party can effectively force its will on the other party."
The power imbalance is frightening! What is wrong with this country?
However the biggest takeaway I get from this article was this:
"The fact that innocent people get caught up in the system is indeed unconscionable, says JoAnne Page, president and CEO of the Fortune Society, a New York City-based nonprofit that helps the formerly incarcerated rebuild their lives after release. "But," she tells me, "the norm is pretty horrible, too."
"We are crippling entire generations of people," Page says. "Our punishments are out of line with the crimes and with any other society's version of what is reasonable. And then when people get out, we don't stop the punishment."
For the last time what is wrong with this country?