burrrton wrote:Yes, really.
We're certainly imperfect, but that remains the ideal, and the reason you can't throw away the key on a murderous @sshole like OJ for a crime for which he was acquitted.
Head down to Venezuela if you want to see actual "breaking of laws with impunity".
Yea, I don't think you'd see someone like Martha Stewart convicted in some banana republic.
Justice has gotten more even handed, at least with respects to who they haul in front of the court, over my lifetime. It used to be that the town's star athlete would never get arrested for a suspected DUI. Now even All Pros get their ass hauled to court. There's still a disparity in that money can buy you a much better attorney than a public defender, but I'm not sure how you fix that part of the justice system.