Being rich is a massive privilege when it comes to the justice system.
Itâs a bigger deal than race. If youâre poor, you donât have much of a chance. If your rich, unless itâs open and shut evidence youâll most likely get off.
Because the poor cannot afford proper representation that the rich can.
Reminds me of something Chris Rock said one time. He said if OJ had been OJ the bread truck driver he would have been OJ the murdering bread truck driver.
It wasnât the same prosecutor. The DA at the time and who made the promise was Bruce Castor (the one who repâd Trump in the second impeachment). His successor, who was the Deputy DA at the time, decided to pursue the charges after he left office, and her successor actually prosecuted the case.
Iâm surprised the prosecutor wonât be prosecuted for misconduct then? The courtâs reasoning sounded like a no-brainer and that for it to happen in the first place, had to be intentional?
âUS comedian Bill Cosby was freed from prison Wednesday, in a blow to the #MeToo movement, after a US court overturned his conviction for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman 15 years ago.â
Itâs saddening how those entrusted to uphold the ârule of lawâ, have not only used their positions of power to âlegislate from the benchâ and make our laws mean what they want them to mean as happened in Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S., where the majority on the court used the Humpty Dumpty theory of language to make the word âsexâ, as found in the 1964 Civil Rights Act, mean what they wanted it to mean, but now these scoundrels are shown to use their position of public trust to overturn a conviction of a sexual predator who took liberty of sixty women.
Let us remember the definition of tyranny, as defined by one of our founding fathers.
âThe accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands [e.g.,our judicial system] . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.â ___ Madison, Federalist Paper No. 47
JWK
As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of darkness.___Supreme Court Justice William Douglas
If the court is correct that the conviction was based on testimony Cosby was forced to give because he lost his fifth amendment rights as a result of being promised that he would not be prosecuted, then the court had no real options to overturning the conviction.