>....people who's job is to convict people .... This, right here, is the heart of the matter for me. If we have people whose job is to convict people then they

>....people who's job is to convict people .... This, right here, is the heart of the matter for me. If we have people whose job is to convict people then they'll do whatever it takes, not necessarily serve justice or do the right thing, to convict anyone coming their way. However, if you change the job goal to "reduce crime rate", or some such metric, then they would at least try to do what's fair.