Overcoming Injustice
"No
weapon that is formed against you will succeed; And every tongue that
accuses you in judgment you will condemn. This is the heritage of the
servants of the LORD, And their vindication is from Me, declares the
LORD."
-------Isaiah
54:17
Over
2000 Wrongful Conviction Exoneration
The
National Registry of Exoneration- a joint project of University of
Michigan Law School and Northwestern University School of Law,
estimates there has been over 2,000 wrongful convictions exoneration
since 1989. Their research has found that wrongful convictions occur
because of a number of different reasons; mistake in identity, false
testimonies, coerced confessions, police misconduct- just to name a
few of the more commonly reported reasons. However, the emphasis of
this article will be on “prosecutorial misconduct”, which many
believe is the most disturbing reason for the wrongful convictions.
This level of misconduct, makes the justice system seem to be more
conviction driven than justice conscious.
Prosecutors,
both at the state and federal level, must carry-out very important
duties in their authoritative position as “Ministers of Justice”.
They are entrusted with a significant amount of power. But there are
professional standard and ethical lines they are mandated and
expected not to cross. Particularly, they are not suppose to violate
an accused constitutional right to due process and a fair trial.
PERIOD. However, many of the wrongful convictions that take place
across the country, is the result of prosecutors who deliberately and
sometimes blatantly disregard an accused right to due process. This a
gross abuse of entrusted power. It's saddening, as well as unnerving,
to think that this enormous power is in the hands of many legal
professionals that seem to have no conscious and a disregard for a
another person's life and constitutional rights. It seems criminal
minded, to pursue the imprisonment of a person having knowledge that
person has not committed the crime for which they are standing trial.
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