For the most part, I think our system sucks! There are so many people in prison for crimes they didn't commit, and when a person that the police suspect is a murderer gets off, the police don't look for another suspect. Basically the crime goes unsolved. Most police do not want to admit that maybe they suspected the wrong person the whole time. I have to say, If someone murdered my husband, and the police suspected me and I was their sole suspect..I would be freaking out that the real murderer is out there, roaming free. I'd tell the cops, "Fine! You think it was me? Okay! But please keep looking! Don't focus just on me"! But it happens all the time. And why is it that people get different sentences in different states for basically the same crime? And why is it that the state gets to "assume" what happened in a crime and the defense doesn't get to do the same? The defense only has the truth on their side. The defense has no idea what really happened but they get to make up a theory of what happened and tell it to the jury to help sway the jury in their direction. It's so wrong. I have said it a million times..sometimes I would like to give up my right to be an American simply because of the way our judicial system works. it is scary. What happens if (God forbid) something bad happens to someone in my family and I am accused, or someone else in my family is accused, and we are innocent. If the cops decide you did it, then you did it as far as they can see and they will do everything they can to prove it. And they probably will succeed, just on circumstantial evidence. it scares the crap out of me! There are hundreds of people locked up forever for crimes they didn't commit. I want to give credit where credit is due..the law puts away ALOT of people who deserve to be put away..I agree that alot of people deserve to be in prison for life too..but my problem is there are a lot of people in prison for life that are no threat to our society. For example, Dixie Shanahan, who killed her husband after years and years of horrid abuse. She must serve at least 35 years before she is eligible for parole.Yet, there is a case where a woman shot her husband because she was writing bad checks and didn't want him to find out, an she only got 6 months! Yes! It's crazy! She used the battered wife defense, but no one believed it. He was a preacher, no one ever saw a mark on her, she never told anyone that he abused her until after she was caught, and she got 6 months. She served her time in a mental institution and gets to live her life as if nothing ever happened. Seriously, do people realize how long 35 years IS? I mean..that's practically my WHOLE life..and Dixie Shanahan will be in prison for 35 years because she just couldn't take it anymore. This man held her captive for days in their basement. He tied her hands up with metal coat hangers and threatened to kill her every day while he beat the crap out of her. My heart went out to her and so did many others, but she still has to serve 35 years and won't be out of prison until she is an old woman and her children will be grown. All because she just couldn't take it anymore. She literally snapped. it's not like she didn't call the cops either..she did..and he kept getting out of jail and convincing her he had changed. (Like they all do) She finally had a chance to put him away for a long time, but she left the state and just wanted to move on with her life and guess who came back to get her? Yup! Her husband came back and convinced her to take him back. All this woman wanted was to keep her family together, and all she wanted was to believe that the man she loved would change.
Well, she shot him...and then she left him in the bed that she shot him in for over a year. She just closed off the room and pretended it never happened...and folks..that was probably her downfall..if she would have called the cops immediately after she shot him, I'm sure she would be a free woman.
Woulda, coulda...shoulda...geesh!
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