Into a possible weapon for prosecution. Its the inside story. Ers wrom to inside story. Im Lisa Fletcher in for ray suarez. Tonights program indicting the grand jury. Back to the colonial days, some 200 plus years later there is a growing force of critics. Grand juries dont decide guilt or innocence but rather should charges be brought. Most grand jury members dont understand the complexity of the law so they can be easily led by prosecutors. If grand juries no longer be point . Al jazeera answer respects has more. Andall pingts pinkston has more. Choke hold death of eric garner, both cases involving Police Officers and unarmed brak men have led to questions about the grand jury process in this country. The United States is one of the only countries to still use grurs obe indict people for crimes. The grand jury is an institution that existed before the constitution. Its purpose then is similar now, to protect citizens from government prosecution without just cause. What happens inside
Into a possible weapon for prosecution. Its the inside story. Ers wrom to inside story. Im Lisa Fletcher in for ray suarez. Tonights program indicting the grand jury. Back to the colonial days, some 200 plus years later there is a growing force of critics. Grand juries dont decide guilt or innocence but rather should charges be brought. Most grand jury members dont understand the complexity of the law so they can be easily led by prosecutors. If grand juries no longer be point . Al jazeera answer respects has more. Andall pingts pinkston has more. Choke hold death of eric garner, both cases involving Police Officers and unarmed brak men have led to questions about the grand jury process in this country. The United States is one of the only countries to still use grurs obe indict people for crimes. The grand jury is an institution that existed before the constitution. Its purpose then is similar now, to protect citizens from government prosecution without just cause. What happens inside
[ applause ]. John our legal system is a mess. Every single lawyers due takes forever, and the guilty get away with it. But at the same time lots of people are locked up for things they didnt do. We know that now because dna evidence is more available. These innocent people were jailed. I was wrongfully convicted of a murder and rape of my friend, and i spent almost 20 years in prison nar crime. I spent 11 years and 3 months in prison. 20 years, 9 months and 5 days in prison for a crime i didnt commit. John how does that happen . Tim lynch runs the project on criminal justice for the cato institute. The system is not as accurate as people think it is . Its not. Our system is badly flawed. More flawed than many people want to admit, john. As you said since dna evidence came on the scene, we discovered weve got hundreds and hundreds of people who had their lives shattered because theyve been thrown in prison for crimes they didnt commit. John Chris Christie said without question america
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You must have wondered, as i did, whether there was anything a private citizen could do about a problem so big. That is why we decided to study the situation. The results are published in this book. We call it freedom of the american road, simply because we americans always have liked plenty of elbow room freedom to come and , go as we please in this great country of ours. The first thing we found was that you cannot talk about highways without talking about traffic and safe driving, too. We found many highway and Traffic Safety experts who are doing a Great Service to the public. What they need is public understanding and support. But the most important thing we discovered was that already many private citizens and communities across the nation have gotten together to tackle their local problems with real success. We present a few of their stories in this motion picture. We do so with pride, for here, it seems to me, is real democracy in action. And now, for a firsthand report, lets g