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Corrupt Justice System / CASH FOR KIDS

Postby Anonymizer » Mon Feb 21, 2011 7:51 am

Cash For Kids
Judge convicted of taking money for sending kids to boot camp. The Prison Industrial Complex is real and this undeniably underscores that fact.
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Re: Corrupt Justice System

Postby Anonymizer » Mon Feb 21, 2011 8:50 am

Absolutely. There's a reason that the USA has the highest incarceration rate in the world. It has nothing to do with the commission of actual crime and everything with greedy azzh*oles getting rich. Whether it's some politician grandstanding on a get tough on crime policy, a corporation that makes goods purchased by the law enforcement and prison industries, or a corrupt judge, it all adds up to more people being wrongfully incarcerated. It's time to do a little house cleaning and run the corrupt detectives, DAs, judges, prison guards, etc. out of law enforcement!
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Re: Corrupt Justice System

Postby Anonymizer » Mon Feb 21, 2011 10:35 am

shadylady wrote:Absolutely. There's a reason that the USA has the highest incarceration rate in the world. It has nothing to do with the commission of actual crime and everything with greedy azzh*oles getting rich. Whether it's some politician grandstanding on a get tough on crime policy, a corporation that makes goods purchased by the law enforcement and prison industries, or a corrupt judge, it all adds up to more people being wrongfully incarcerated. It's time to do a little house cleaning and run the corrupt detectives, DAs, judges, prison guards, etc. out of law enforcement!

Don't even get me started on this topic! I've had it with corrupt politicians riding on the 'get tough on crime' bandwagon! We should be decriminalizing all sorts of supposed offenses in order to fix our broke "justice" system, not coming up with more excuses to throw people into prison!!!
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Re: Corrupt Justice System

Postby Anonymizer » Sat Apr 02, 2011 7:55 am

Prosecutors Get a Mulligan, Wrongfully Convicted Man Gets Squat
When the highest court in the land can't do the right thing, then our justice system becomes a complete joke. If the precept "Not guilty until proven innocent" means anything, then it would be impossible to falsely convict someone accused of a crime. If a person is innocent, then there would always be a shadow of a doubt and unbiased jurors would be morally obligated to return a verdict of innocent. However, jurors go with their guts and overlook the gaps in the evidence! It's a disgusting system we have and it's even more disgusting when the Supreme Court makes a mockery of the concepts of justice and fairness! There is absolutely no excuse for this kind of brazen stupidity!
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United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote his first majority opinion of the Term Tuesday and, naturally enough, it was a 5-4 decision against the interests of a criminal defendant whose constitutional rights had been dramatically violated by prosecutors. To mark the occasion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg read her dissent aloud in court (also a first for the Term) and Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice Ginsburg's well-chronicled BFF, took a few shots at her in an otherwise needless concurrence joined by Justice Samuel Alito.

Here's the story. Convicted of murder, and on Louisiana's death row for 14 years, John Thompson was just one month away from being executed when defense investigators discovered exculpatory evidence that prosecutors had failed to share with Thompson's lawyers in the two cases (one for armed robbery, one for murder) which led him to death row. The evidence hidden by the state were blood samples -- not from Thompson's blood -- found at the scene of the robbery.

Confronted with the new evidence, an appeals court quickly reversed both of Thompson's convictions. Undaunted, prosecutors tried Thompson again for murder. This time, Thompson was acquitted. He then sued the district attorneys. Thompson alleged that prosecutors had intentionally caused him to be wrongfully imprisoned for a total of 18 years. He argued that the DA's office unconstitutionally handled exculpatory evidence -- or at least that lead prosecutors inadequately trained their office staff to handle such evidence.

LINK: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/03/prosecutors-get-a-mulligan-wrongfully-convicted-man-gets-squat/73197/
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Re: Corrupt Justice System

Postby Anonymizer » Sat Apr 02, 2011 9:41 am

shadylady wrote:Prosecutors Get a Mulligan, Wrongfully Convicted Man Gets Squat
When the highest court in the land can't do the right thing, then our justice system becomes a complete joke. If the precept "Not guilty until proven innocent" means anything, then it would be impossible to falsely convict someone accused of a crime. If a person is innocent, then there would always be a shadow of a doubt and unbiased jurors would be morally obligated to return a verdict of innocent. However, jurors go with their guts and overlook the gaps in the evidence! It's a disgusting system we have and it's even more disgusting when the Supreme Court makes a mockery of the concepts of justice and fairness! There is absolutely no excuse for this kind of brazen stupidity!
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United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote his first majority opinion of the Term Tuesday and, naturally enough, it was a 5-4 decision against the interests of a criminal defendant whose constitutional rights had been dramatically violated by prosecutors. To mark the occasion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg read her dissent aloud in court (also a first for the Term) and Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice Ginsburg's well-chronicled BFF, took a few shots at her in an otherwise needless concurrence joined by Justice Samuel Alito.

Here's the story. Convicted of murder, and on Louisiana's death row for 14 years, John Thompson was just one month away from being executed when defense investigators discovered exculpatory evidence that prosecutors had failed to share with Thompson's lawyers in the two cases (one for armed robbery, one for murder) which led him to death row. The evidence hidden by the state were blood samples -- not from Thompson's blood -- found at the scene of the robbery.

Confronted with the new evidence, an appeals court quickly reversed both of Thompson's convictions. Undaunted, prosecutors tried Thompson again for murder. This time, Thompson was acquitted. He then sued the district attorneys. Thompson alleged that prosecutors had intentionally caused him to be wrongfully imprisoned for a total of 18 years. He argued that the DA's office unconstitutionally handled exculpatory evidence -- or at least that lead prosecutors inadequately trained their office staff to handle such evidence.

LINK: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/03/prosecutors-get-a-mulligan-wrongfully-convicted-man-gets-squat/73197/

The five idiot judges who voted against compensating this wrongfully accused individual should be thrown into prison for fourteen years so they can see what it's like. They should have to endure the same conditions that the wrongfully convicted guy had to endure. This is totally insane. These pampered idiots need to stand up against the corruption of law enforcement. Widespread prosecutorial misconduct is a national crisis and needs to be dealt with head on. These justices are allowing prosecutors to get away with their dirty tricks and that's just plain unacceptable!
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Re: Corrupt Justice System

Postby Anonymizer » Wed Apr 13, 2011 7:44 am

Corrupt Prison System Design to Create Slave Labor for The Corporate State
Alex Jones is a little crazy, but sometimes he's right. In this case he talks about the corrupt prison system and how liberals and conservatives eat away at our basic rights from different directions.
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Re: Corrupt Justice System

Postby shadylady » Thu Jun 30, 2011 6:48 am

PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Incarceration Nation
Powerful corporations employ various strategies to influence public policy to increase prison population and thereby make more money.
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Re: Corrupt Justice System

Postby a2z » Thu Jun 30, 2011 8:00 pm

Prison industrial complex
Making laws to increase prison population? WTF? I know that this has been going on for a long time, but it's getting way too blatant and way too obvious. Why is this allowed to be going on?
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Re: Corrupt Justice System

Postby desertrat » Tue Sep 20, 2011 4:34 pm

Clemency Denied for Troy Davis; Georgia Death Row Inmate Scheduled to Die Sept. 21
When the state murders an innocent man the law no longer has any moral standing. To murder Troy Davis is to beg for anarchy and holy retribution. A government that allows the execution of an innocent man is a sham and a fraud and deserves to be overthrown.
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Davis, who has always maintained his innocence, has supporters around the world, including Pope Benedict and Desmond Tutu. Hundreds of vigils have been held in the last week. Davis? lawyers point to a lack of DNA evidence linking him to the murder and a number of key eye-witness recantations after his conviction. Former President Jimmy Carter says, "This case illustrates the deep flaws in the application of the death penalty in this country."

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Re: Corrupt Justice System

Postby a2z » Tue Sep 20, 2011 7:21 pm

Ruling to execute Troy Davis violates core principles
1) There is plenty of reason to doubt Davis' guilt.
2) Executing an innocent man is murder.
3) Those who have the legal power and who fail to prevent the execution of Davis are guilty of murder. There is no question about this since it is a matter of public record.
4) Those who have the legal power to prevent the execution and fail to do so obviously condone the death penalty.
The implications are clear and the logic is irrefutable...
Proving innocence is far more difficult than establishing doubts as to one's guilt and flips our system of criminal jurisprudence on its head. Instead of the American system's presumption of innocence and a requirement that the state prove guilt, Davis' evidentiary hearing began with the court presuming guilt and required the condemned to prove his innocence.

LINK: http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/20/opinion/barr-davis-ruling-wrong/index.html
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Re: Corrupt Justice System

Postby wildrose » Wed Sep 21, 2011 6:59 am

Supporters of Clemency for Troy Davis
The list of supporters of clemency for Troy Davis includes three Nobel price winners. The Georgia parole board has no Nobel prize winners as members. Nuff said!
LINK: http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/campaigns/abolish-the-death-penalty/death-penalty-campaign-resources/supporters-of-clemency-for-troy-davis
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Re: Corrupt Justice System

Postby desertrat » Thu Sep 22, 2011 7:45 am

USA: World Leader in Human Rights Abuses
We are not a beacon of hope or democracy or freedom. We are an evil empire that thinks nothing of committing atrocities and crimes against humanity on a routine basis. The USA is the land of hypocrisy!
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