Donald Trump has claimed that the election system is rigged because he didn’t win the last election and now, since he’s been convicted on 34 felony counts, he claims that the judicial system is rigged.
In regards to the judicial system, I must agree.
I remember when the Central Park Five were charged and jailed we saw where racism and the judicial system failed these young men. Trump on the other had took out a full page ad in the New York Times demanding that they be executed.
Years later when these men were exonerated Trump still called for them to be jailed and executed.
People of color and immigrants are everyday denied a fair trial within the judicial systems. Public Defenders and Immigration Attorneys do not have the funds for investigation, nor for experts nor have access to the media to argue their case to the public.
Since 1973, 197 individuals on death row were exonerated and since 1980, 850 individuals have been found to have been innocent and released. The Innocence Project claims that there are many more who could be released but there is not enough staff to do the research and representation.
Above and beyond, this is the disparity of sentences. Court and victim fees are much higher for people of color than for the average white defendant.
The judicial system is rigged against people of color and the poor. We have yet to see a rich man on death row.
Donald Trump a billionaire, or perhaps only a millionaire, had and has the funds to pay for not only for one attorney but for a battery of attorneys, investigators, researchers.
But in this last trial his attorneys did not seem to be prepared. In addition, Trump had high level political acolytes not only sitting in on the trial and then going out and argue for Trump to the national media.
And now that Trump has been convicted of 34 felonies, he will have the funds to appeal his conviction for years to come.
Poor people in most cases do not have adequate legal representation and not the resources to do further appeals.
Not to mention that Public Defenders and Immigration attorneys have enormous case loads and not enough hours.
On criminal cases people of color are pushed to plead to charges even though in some cases the persons are innocent.
When Trump loses at the polls or in the courts he calls the process rigged.
And I must stress that the judicial system is rigged. It is rigged in favor of the rich and against defendants who are of color or poor.
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