What I'd like is if lawyers actually wanted to serve justice instead of win cases at all cost. This is why people tell mean jokes about them.
That is not mutually exclusive, there are rules of evidence and such that the judge is suppose to uphold.
But it is an adversarial process, and it's suppose to be the job of the state to prove the case, so there can be no reasonable doubt.
A phrase often mistaken for throw out any fantasy and prove it could not have happened that way.
All the evidence the state holds, including witnesses are suppose to be disclosed to the defense and the defense is suppose to have access to those witnesses and evidence in order to examine them before trial.
It's not a "justice system", it's suppose to be the rule of law. Justice implies some sort of emotional attachment
What I'd like is if lawyers actually wanted to serve justice instead of win cases at all cost. This is why people tell mean jokes about them.
We have a legal system, not a justice system. In that system each side is suppose to mount a "vigorous" presentation of the facts.
There are rules, which the judge is suppose to impartially uphold.
There is the admittance of evidence, discovery. The state is required to prove guilt, so that no reasonable person has doubt. The defense only needs to form a case for reasonable doubt.
In this case impartiality was thrown out the window. The state all but fabricated evidence. They made it so that the defense could not call what would have been a key eye witness, not a bystander with a cell phone. The other occupant of the car. The judged blocked calling that witness.
There was video evidence that Chauvin's knee was not on the neck, but rather on the back. The media (and the state) only showed the time he was on the ground. Not the resisting arrest, and forcing his way out of the car. But the sympathetic "I can't breathe" with the angle that looks like his neck is being chocked by the knee. I don't know about you, but if you can't breath, you usually don't spend that amount of time, with that volume of sound, complaining about not being able to breath - because you are too busy trying to suck in air.
He suffocated from the fentanyl. That's what it does. It shuts the brain off from telling the body to breath and pump blood.
But what was most clear was that in the city of Minneapolis there was not going to be a juror that would vote for not guilty.
So instead they actually put a guy on the jury who was clearly bias (by his social media and podcasts)
Somebody in the court system didn't do their work. Attorneys do not get a list of jurors before hand, that's compiled by the court and the judge before trial.
#1 - there should have been a change of venue. That jury didn't look at any evidence except what they had seen on the news.