These words echo and ring in the back of my mind when ever I see a trial taking place on the news or hear of a criminal being captured.
Unfortunately these words in today’s society are as fictional as the character of “Superman” where these words are associated with. This ideal has become a faded memory as our laws and justice system have become more concerned with protecting the guilty than the innocent.
Strong words you say, can I back those up? Yes indeed I can. I wish that I could not but contained here in is the simple truth.
When the court system was first initiated and people were given representation it was for the soul purpose of determining a person’s guilt or innocence. If they were innocent their lawyer was to help prove that innocence and if guilty to plead for the mercy of the court.
It has no longer become a matter of determining whether or not a man is guilty but if there is a way to twist the laws so that they can walk free.
What needs to happen and will not with out some major protesting and letter writing is that things need to go back to the basics of guilty or not guilty.
For example does a criminal not being read his rights change whether or not he actually molested the child?
Does obtaining information leading to an arrest without a proper search warrant change whether or not they actually stabbed the woman thirteen times before decapitating her?
Unless you’re an idiot or a high priced lawyer with no morals the answer is a solid “NO”
Criminals need to be tried solely on whether or not they committed the crime at hand or not. That is justice. Oh and before you hop up on that high horse of saying what about the criminals rights lets see what should take place.
If an officer fails to read a criminal their rights, then yes that officer should receive punishment for failing in their duties.
But at the same time a criminals rights being read to them does not affect whether or not they committed the crime and should in no way affect the outcome of the trial.
People are not being put on trial to see whether or not the police crossed every “T” and dotted every “I”. They are on trial to determine whether or not they committed the crime they are on trial for.
The same goes for evidence illegally obtained. Again the punishment should go to whom ever obtained it illegally and that be it. This idiocy of people who are guilty beyond a shadow of any doubt going free because someone screwed up the paperwork has to be stopped.
I would even go further as to start to put lawyers on trial for knowingly twisting the laws to set the guilty free.
If the client is innocent the lawyer should do everything in their power to help prove their innocence and if the client is guilty then the lawyer should do everything in their power to plead for the mercy of the court, NOT twist the laws so that a rapist, murderer, child molester, etc… can go free to commit the crime again.
No law set forth can ever stop a crime, all laws are set up as a deterrent from committing them, but when the consequences to committing these crimes are cut off at the knees by high priced lawyers these laws become of no effect and crime runs rampant.
My only prayer is that these lawyers and law makers who knowingly set the guilty free and make the streets unsafe for us and our children end up getting bit in the butt by their actions and fall victim of the nightmare they are creating for the rest of us.
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