This is very special
Dec. 20th, 2007 05:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pez"I wouldn't have liked the wrong man to be charged"
If I'm wearing a hat, I'd take it off for this man.
Sometimes my mind boggles at the way people react when trials find the suspects not guilty, or retrials find the previous convicion unsafe. They always go "OMG, how could you release this man, he killed my family/friend/whoever!" As if the first person the police arrested and charged must be the guilty one. Don't people look at it this way "OMG, maybe they arrested the wrong guy and my family/friend's killer is still out there!"
Maybe Barry George really didn't kill Jill Dando. Shouldn't her family be worried that the real killer might actually be still out there?
Okay, anger and grief factors a lot into it. And maybe at the court you can see the menace in those eyes and you can tell that's the murderer. And yes, I do realise I've simplified things very much (I'm not going to write an essay; I have work to do). But I don't believe every single person who got released after retrial/found not guilty must be a criminal.
Hey... this would be interesting fic material... a miscarriage of justice...
If I'm wearing a hat, I'd take it off for this man.
Sometimes my mind boggles at the way people react when trials find the suspects not guilty, or retrials find the previous convicion unsafe. They always go "OMG, how could you release this man, he killed my family/friend/whoever!" As if the first person the police arrested and charged must be the guilty one. Don't people look at it this way "OMG, maybe they arrested the wrong guy and my family/friend's killer is still out there!"
Maybe Barry George really didn't kill Jill Dando. Shouldn't her family be worried that the real killer might actually be still out there?
Okay, anger and grief factors a lot into it. And maybe at the court you can see the menace in those eyes and you can tell that's the murderer. And yes, I do realise I've simplified things very much (I'm not going to write an essay; I have work to do). But I don't believe every single person who got released after retrial/found not guilty must be a criminal.
Hey... this would be interesting fic material... a miscarriage of justice...
