Re: OT...Two executions

Bruce S wrote:
On 9/25/2011 6:24 PM, NotMe wrote:

The 20+ in Dallas were based on evidance.

Of all the cases in Dallas, the fact that there were only 20
overturned proves that the system has done a damn good job at finding
the right people - and the fact that those cases were overturned
proves that the appeals process makes the system practically
foolproof.

You might feel it's a damn good job, but those who served will not have the
same viewpoint by a long shot.

"Dallas has had a reputation as a city where law and order were sometimes
taken to extremes. An example was the competition among prosecutors in the
early 1970's for sentences in the hundreds and thousands of years.

''I was appointed co-counsel in a case in the early '70's that started it,
where a client was given a 199-year sentence in a case that was later
reversed for lack of evidence,'' recalled Melvyn Bruder, a Dallas lawyer.
''It spread like wildfire after that, with prosecutors asking for and
getting 200 and 300 years and then 1,000 and 2,000. It was a frenzy that to
my knowledge didn't happen anyplace else in the country.''

Changes in the Texas penal code have ended such sentencing."

In other words justice was not part of the Dallas judical system only
retribution and political posturing to be the leading state for "Law and
Order."

While I agree in general with your statement that the overturns is a small
number out of the total incarcerated prison population, it is a bit
disturbing that over the decades you see reports on police misconduct in
many cities across the US. The Rampart station in LA, New York with 2
officers working for the Mafia, the Chicago department starting the riot in
'68 and of course the majority of New Orleans police department. I have to
suspect due to the large monetary value of cocaine in Florida in the 70's
that there had to be some major corruption. That said I believe in the
sanctity of the system, but as to your appeals process assertion, I say that
the establishment fights with all the power that it commands, including
money, power and resources to oppose all who would sully the justice
department in spite of evidence otherwise and if the appeals process works
it works with grudgingness.

--
Frank Howell


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