Operational limit this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on wheres the power in this country wheres it going is it moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional participatory democracy as are powerline with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in the very real ways our struggle. You. Belong to sherman didnt is guilty no maam. Would we see on t. V. Shows is not reality our Justice System isnt what you think it is Rolling Stone magazine considers wayne kramer of the m c 51 of the top 100 greatest guitarists of all time he battled drug addiction in 1975 went to prison for 2 years for selling cocaine hes since provided guitars and taught music 10 mates at over 50 correctional institutions throughout the United States people think that you know you have a right to a trial and everybody goes to trial and theres the good prosecutor and the defense attorney and they battle it out that is the way it works the way it works is the prosecutor
Pleading guilty to crimes they may not have committed because theyre the theyre railroaded by Police Officers who give them false information or horrors confessions or because theyre afraid of facing you know harsh mandatory minimum sentences and believe that you know the best chance is to just take a plea every joe you dont know anything about you know the prison politics in county jail you dont know anything so they put you there with these people in this is how they force you to take deals the u. S. Justice system just like any Justice System in the world a system where 95 percent of the cases are resolved by plea bargain you know its no longer trial system its a plea bargain system the whole purpose of plea bargains from the perspective of a prosecutor raises his conviction rate so prosecutors typically have a high 90 percent. Conviction rates including those plea bargains. Because of course from a legal standpoint we know that nobody would ever plead guilty to something they didnt
Correctional institutions throughout the United States people think that you know you have a right to a trial and everybody goes to trial and theres the good prosecutor the and the defense attorney and they battle it out that i think the way it works the way it works is the prosecutors stack up the charges on you and force you to plead guilty to a lesser charge to keep from doing life or double life or triple life people dont get trials what they get is a deal people suggest that anywhere between you know 310 and 15 percent of people behind bars could be innocent of the crimes for which they were charged Michelle Alexander is a civil rights lawyer stanford law professor and the author of the new jim crow one of the most highly acclaimed studies americas criminal Justice System the reality is that thousands of people. Every year and i did states wind up pleading guilty to crimes they may not have committed because theyre either or railroaded by Police Officers who give them false inform
A cell in isolation no contact with other juveniles only counselors one hour out for recreation and while they might not be able to introduce an alternate suspect demanded his lawyer not down every argument the prosecution could make. The prosecutor said those could not have seen his mothers body through the back window of the house the sons reflection in the glass and the furniture would have blocked his view his defense was the crime scene pictures were taken on a much sunnier day the prosecution claimed all the bloody footprints in the house matched his shoes this defense says his fingerprints were not found anywhere in the time scene there was no evidence that he wiped anything down i made any attempt to cover his tracks because bruce had nothing to hide the prosecution called Robert Hughes who claimed he was confessed in the 7000 model of county chair and the defense compared Robert Hughes to a used car salesman who wasnt to be trusted. Then one day they wrap their keys on the doo
Morning. And the nasdaq is down by 182 points a lot of this is whats happening in europe right now. You dont just look at the oversees market but were going to take our queues from what is happening there. You can see the ftse down by 3. 4 and the other markets are down by more and a lot of this is coming in the last few hours. They could be considering a second lock down as covid cases there have soared theyre back to the levels in may. Theyre concerned about whats happening with the number of cases and the hospitalizations admissions doubling every 8 days theyre now looking at 6,000 cases a day and again theres been some talk of a potential second lock down there now they want to make sure that schools can stay open and that some businesses could stay open but just the threat of that, the potential for the second wave coming is enough to push all of the stocks in europe into the red. If you take a look at whats been happening with travel and leisure stocks they were down by 6 earlier