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What kind of person sends an innocent man to prison just to score a win in a case? Someone ground down and dehumanized by a corrupt bureaucracy. The modern jud
by stcredzero 8y ago
What kind of person sends an innocent man to prison just to score a win in a case?
Someone ground down and dehumanized by a corrupt bureaucracy. The modern judicial systems largely use adversarial processes as a proxy or as an approximation of truth. There are no oracles of truth. No one is your friend. There are only people trying to win, and this will inevitably include gaming the system. The DA is no one's friend, even if you are the victim. The cops aren't your friend. Everyone just wants to win. This is why there is the presumption of innocence and the 5th amendment.
EDIT: This sort of adversarial judicial system is akin to Democracy, in that it's the worst system of its type, except for every other system we've tried.
- zipwitch 8y ago>This sort of adversarial judicial system is akin to Democracy, in that it's the worst system of its type, except for every other system we've tried. Except that's not really true. Democracies are split between highly adversarial common law systems, and civil law systems where judges take a stronger role in the process. People living under civil law, with less adversarial systems and more inquisitorial judges, don't seem notably more or less happy with their justice systems than those with adversarial systems.
- stcredzero 8y agoI take it there are studies about this.