cods wrote on Jan 22
nd, 2017 at 12:23pm:
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Jan 22
nd, 2017 at 11:39am:
How did this become 'cods thinks she's done nothing wrong'?
Perhaps Orkie is innocent.... I wasn't at the trial and didn't hear all the evidence.... but it wouldn't be the first time an innocent has been done down.
Demanding that he acknowledge guilt when he maintains he is not guilty is a false approach in my eyes, and is designed to ensure that it appears the 'system' does not make mistakes.
I'm currently reading about Daryl Beamish and John Button in WA - and how they both spent years in prison for crimes they didn't commit, and the amazing way 'the system' bent over backwards to appear to have not done wrong.
well I dont know those people you are reading about..
and yes I am sure there are quite a few been judge guilty when in fact they are not..
but even you would have to admit/..
more are in jail because they ARE GUILTY.. than those who have gone to jail and not been GUILTY...
do you suggest no one go to jail because of the off chance ?????..
I mean they did stop hanging.. not because its barbaric.. but because of the innocent lives that system took.....
come on grap... are you suggesting.. we eithe r have JAILS OR WE DONT because of the odd mistake???
if you have found two who were innocents .. well done what was the cause of their Jailing???>...what went wrong at their trials...
you seem to be judging all sentencing the same....all suss..
it doesnt sound like you have any faith in our courts.
To quote Hurricane Carter - "Indeed, Your Honour - I DO hold this court in contempt!"
The figures in the US for false conviction/imprisonment run from a estimated low of one in sixteen to around one in six - depending on your source. With our failed system of jurisprudence, based on two plus centuries of discrimination and false interpretation, always against the defendant, and the presumption of guilt until proven innocent, rather than the other way around - I'd estimate false convictions at near 50% here.
You'd be amazed at how many Brothers are in prison for assaulting police, when those police haven't had a single mark on them - it's just a general catch-all to get people put in prison for social control reasons, and also to make the police and courts look good, and even to support the claim of some police for a nice 'mortgage buster' retirement for 'stress' from being 'assaulted' in this way.
Get out more.....
That book I'm reading is titled 'Presumed Guilty' - and incidentally raises a further argument against the death penalty - in the case of these two men, the guilty party was caught, confessed and was hanged.... once he was hanged he could not give evidence in court that might have exonerated those two men... but was never given the chance. Nor were they......
Food for thought there... I know your heart is in the right place, cods.....
You could also read 'The Shearer's Tale' by Tom Molomby - about a shearer falsely convicted of murder because his drunk girlfriend kept muttering that she 'knew' he'd done it..... and the cops latched on to that and ignored every bit of ex-culpatory evidence.
The way our courts are - perhaps we need to get rid of the lot and start again - just like with politicians.