A few realities about the justice system.
1. It's not innocent until proven guilty. It's guilty till proven innocent, and the fact Defendants have to sit in jail, sometimes for years bc they can't make bond or are denied bond is a primary indicator for that, IME.
2. My (amazing, professional and very competent) Defense Attorney blurted out, unceremoniously, during one of these ur first meetings....
"We're lucky, bc this Assistant District Attorney doesn't regularly hide exculpatory evidence in order to get convictions.". I'm paraphrasing here.
He seemed relieved.
I was horrified.
3. When I was trying to bring criminal charges against my FIL, my attorneys PI (retired FBI agent) told me flat out ...
"DAs don't bring charges against rich white men.....they prefer low hanging fruit."
That was another shock.
4. My attorney told me the ADA and his crew would highly five each other at the water cooler, the morning after I was convicted, even if they knew I was innocent and they'd wear jeans and feel joy about it.
5. My attorney said there's a war on society to incarcerate large numbers of our population. Looking at the statistics, he was right.
6. Starving litigants out is a legitimate legal tactic.....I mean, starving out children, abused women and litigants with the better case, but not enough money to get through court, who would otherwise win.
7. Judges may run their Courtroom as they like. This includes making up lies about the Defense Counsel and Defendant in order to sway the jury. It also includes excluding as much Defense witnesses and evidence as they like, while allowing all Prosecution evidence in.
8. Prosecutors may claim knowledge of activities and conversations they have no evidence happened, but put it forth, to a jury, as though they themselves witnessed the scene.....and they aren't required to swear in before doing it.
Will leave it there, for now.
