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Justice System

Jim's Blog

America has the finest legal system in the world.  But it’s far from perfect.  One of the problems is concept that if you pit people trained in the law at opposite ends of an issue, the truth will emerge.   The first duty of a District Attorney is to discover

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Jim's Blog

False confessions induced by interrogators are among the leading causes of wrongful imprisonment in the United States, research shows. During hours-long, emotionally stressful interrogations, authorities have coerced, intentionally or not, innocent people to admit to crimes. The problem in many cases is the adversarial nature of the legal system.  The presumption is

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