Are Mistrials and Unfair Trials on the Increase?

I was shocked to read, that too a second time in one week, about people who have been falsely accused by prosecutors who hid contrary evidence from the defense, and thus from the judiciary.

While in the recent case the judiciary could reverse the injustice within a decade, the falsely accused in the older case was not that lucky. Nearly three decades of his life was wiped out.

Even in cases where the falsely accused had some criminal background in the past, that is not a valid ground to hide evidence from the defense and thus the judge. Past history bolsters case when the crime is in the same category as in serial killings.

That doesn't catapult a petty thief or a loiterer into a murderer one fine morning.

What is shocking is that this kind of unethical, immoral and illegal activity is engaged in a democracy that has passed 300 years in existence.

As each year passes we should be progressing forward, not regressing backward like that.

On what page in our constitution or jurisprudence it is written that a few prosecutors can cheat the judiciary by withholding evidence?

Be it by intention or by ignorance, either way the citizenry is short-changed if, in future, such people are elevated to higher seats of judiciary.

And that most of the time African Americans were at the receiving end in such cases, shows that the perpetrators of this crime were so confident that the citizenry in this nation can be fooled by the generalization:

"Oh, he is an African American, so he should be the accused."

I am concerned by the invariable historic truth:

Whenever and wherever a few have been targeted, the unaffected majority too were targeted as time passed.

In fact, and not surprisingly, a fewer numbers of whites too are being falsely implicated in other cases.

So best policy would be to put all mischief down with a firm hand at the first instance and such perpetrators removed from positions paid by taxpayers.

Advocacy groups should keep a tab on such errant persons who perpetrates mistrials and unfair trials, so that such people who cheat judges do not become judges in future.

Most of the time such antisocial mishaps occur because some misguided persons think that they can be promoted to higher judicial positions in future by forcing summary trials on the citizenry - that too in the world's foremost bastion of democracy.

The President and the Congress are dependent on information for judicial appointments. And their appointments are as good as the information they are fed with.

So it is imperative that we monitor people who are so overzealous and overambitious as to hide evidence and cheat the judiciary for their own ends.

On the flip side,

It is high time that community leaders be on guard to avoid crimes and educate their own people about the necessity to avoid crimes. Because otherwise such situations can be generalized to commit injustices by ambitious people.

Community leaders should tell their own people that their valuable leadership do not come free but with a heavy price:

That the community has to be vigilant against the few bad apples who break the law and give a bad name to the whole community.

Remember only a few drops of poison is enough to vitiate the whole pie and make it deadly.

We are fortunate that there are bold judges who are watching like hawks to overturn injustice and reinstate justice, though they cannot adequately compensate for the invaluable years robbed from a human life.