Texas Prosecutor faces justice over man wrongly convicted and imprisoned for 25 years

[liberalhistorian]

13. And as someone who was once in the legal support

field and who's married to an attorney, I can unequivocally attest to the brutal truth of what you're saying. No one should have rose-colored glasses on when it comes to our justice system. It's run by humans, and humans have agendas, biased beliefs, prejudices, hunger for power; they're also error-prone and loath to admit such errors, especially publicly. They are also as subject to emotion and pressure as anyone else, and when emotions run high in a community regarding a murder and they face pressure to solve it as well as biases regarding suspects, even if those suspects had nothing to do with it and there's no evidence of their involvement (racial, ethnic, class and social biases play a special role here), that's when they will really fuck up and then dig in. The power DA's have is almost unlimited, especially since they enjoy automatic esteem and belief in the community, whereas defense attorneys and those who believe suspects do not at all enjoy that.

All it takes to fall into the kind of nightmare that this husband found himself in is to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Period. NO ONE is immune, trust me on that. Particularly if you're of the wrong race, ethnicity or class.