Is there justice equality in America? There have been protests over the years for those who have been arrested or charged that they were treated unfairly because of their race or gender.
The U.S. legal system is in part inherited from English common law and depends on an adversarial system of justice. In an adversarial system, litigants present their cases before a neutral party. The arguments expressed by each litigant (usually represented by lawyers) are supposed to allow the judge or jury to determine the truth about the conflict. Besides presenting written or oral arguments, evidence and testimony are collected by litigants and their lawyers and presented to the court.
Many rules exist regarding how evidence and testimony are presented, trial procedure, courtroom behavior and, etiquette and how evidence and testimony are presented. These rules are designed to promote fairness and allow each side an opportunity to adequately present its case. Of course, some evidence and testimony could be tainted and some witnesses might lie under oath. Could this be why a few people in prison are there because of lies and tainted evidence?
As a white female who has never felt this or been treated this way, I cannot speak on an injustice. But that should never be the reason for being treated justly or unjustly. We must be judged by our attitudes, honesty, how we treat others, and never on our ethnicity.
Ida M Temple
Mansfield PA 16933
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