What is your FULL open honest opinion of the American Legal System?

Question

How do you as a person feel about it?

Any experiences that you may know of that you would like to share?

I am doing a essay for Mock Trial and I need opinions of others to cite in the paper. I am having a VERRRY tough time. I have 600 words & need another 300 or so =[[

Please please help me.

You will be cited. Dont worry

10 pts to the best answer that I recieve

Answer 1

CRAP

No really I mean it. We have this silly notion that our leagal system works. But why is there a man in MI who os spending 2 years in jail for setting over 30 fires in a national forest? And another man spending 12 to 20 years for setting fire to an empty building. Why is OJ still alive? Why is Paris Hilton going to Jail for such a short amount of time?

Answer 2

A few weeks ago I saw a story on "20/20" about two men: one was white, middle class and had several drug arrests. He was repeatedly sentenced to probation by a certain judge. The other man was poor, black and had robbed someone of $10 as a juvenile. When he violated his probation by smoking weed, this same judge sentenced him to life in prison. He was only recently released after a public uproar, when he'd served about 15 years. I think this story vividly illustrates the problems with our justice system: if you've got the money and look like the clean cut (white) boy next door, you can get away with pretty much anything. It's shameful. I hope this helps:)