Our legal system is a bad joke!

Yeah Rew hit the nail on the head. We have a legal system and not a justice system.

I stumbled across this article and it is really good if you are interested in justice in plea bargaining. If prosecutors followed it we would have more justice than we do now. The real problem we have is plea bargaining and the adversarial trial process are diametrically opposed to each other.

http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1618&context=wmlr

You are right Rew!! We don't have a justice system and again I am seeing this! What can I do to get something to change?? Louisiana is so corrupted it's not even funny!! I would love to go talk with the DA that put my son away and the Judge and ask them why my son is doing time and other people are not. So sad.

1. About my attorney: He lied to me from day one. I was told by other dudes in lockup that he was a stand up guy. Turns out he was a "dump truck" too. I was indicted by a federal grand jury just TWO WEEKS after I was locked up. My attorney lied to me the whole time, from June to November. Kept stringing me along until the actual law that he was "supposed" to be following caught up with him and I demanded that if the charges were being dropped that they needed to let me go. You see... the state lied in the initial handling of how I was arrested. I pointed this out to the attorney when I had the chance. I believe that's when the ball got rolling in why I was indicted by the feds.

When I was being processed to leave that is when I was given the news that the U.S. Marshals were coming to pick me up. I felt like I was hit in the gut. Really hard.

It wasn't until wayyyyyy after the fact and until I got a hold of some legal documents pertaining to just how long my probation was (that's a whole nother story I will tell in a second). I was angry...but there was nothing I could do about it. I already plead guilty to a deal. I already had been through the system. And here I am.

2. About Bill Cosby... when you have been in an s.o. group therapy long enough you can see the manure when it's there. If I had my druthers. I don't think Bill is telling the truth. He acts like he has thought about this moment for a long time but it still caught him off guard. He said some things in interviews that don't jive with someone who is truly innocent. Right now...only God knows and it's for Him to deal with.

Yeah I've had the same feelings about Cosby too. And you are right, the women and him and God only know the truth.

I think we all understand. There is also big $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ in this system of registry as you all probably already know very well. :)

Regarding injustices in the American judicial system, I was reading a book this afternoon written by Gerry Spence, the renowned defense attorney from Wyoming.

He is retired now, but if some of you are old enough, you may remember that he is the guy with the longer gray hair who always wore the tan, western style, buckskin jacket while in the courtroom. He never lost a criminal case as a defense attorney and he was the one who won the Karen Silkwood case against Kerr-McGee in the 1970's.

He also defended Randy Weaver, the Survivalist, of the Ruby Ridge fiasco by the government.

He is a pretty honest guy. He said that in all his 60 years of experience, in ALL the cases won by the government against the "little man" that the government engaged in outright lies to garner their conviction.

He stated that there is a reason there is anywhere from a 93% to a 98% conviction rate-----they lie. He mentioned that lying is even more rampant in state courts.

In the link below, he speaks about the failure of the American justice system and how the government is willing to violate any law to obtain a conviction against the "little people."

http://tinyurl.com/khmhuem

The government thinks so little of its citizens that it does not even care if it puts an innocent person in prison, sometimes on death row.

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