Uncensored Justice System Discussion

JUSTICE1st · Joined: 13 Dec 2007 Posts: 715 Location: USA

According to a new Presidential website entitled "Recovery.gov," the Obama Administration has some suggestions for "improving the justice system." I've posted the link below.

http://www.recovery.gov/?q=node/209

While the list at this site is a start, I only wonder how MUCH effort is going to be made toward what I feel is an essential part of fixing the part of our criminal justice system that has been badly damaged. I am of course referring to the current issue of wrongful convictions, and trying as much as humanly possible to prevent more of these travesties from occurring to begin with. Related issues need to be addressed as well, such as the serious problem of false confessions and the tactics used to obtain them.

Personally, I think now may be the time to bring WHAT SAY YOU to the attention of our new President, and stress that these issues need to be addressed far more thoroughly than they have been so far. I was waiting until President Obama had officially taken office, and now that he has, I think the issues of wrongful convictions and false confessions, to name just two, need to be brought to President Obama's and AG Eric Holder's attention NOW, not later.

I am going to start working on a new letter to send to President Obama via email, and will include a link to this forum at the bottom of that email when it is ready to send. It's only my opinion, and I want to read each of yours, whether we should write only one letter, or as many as can be sent to bring these issues to national attention. I think more letters would be better than just one.

What say you all?

J Cool

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"We must remember, always, that accusation is not proof, and conviction depends on evidence and due process of law."
EDWARD R. MURROW, 1954