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eppur_se_muova

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12. Oh, I should have added the concept of "railroading". If local officials want you convicted, you get convicted.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Reply #10)

Sat Dec 20, 2025, 11:12 AM

Dec 20

It's true in more places than it's not. Only in really high profile cases does the unjustly accused stand a fighting chance.

Politics and "justice" are always more corrupt at the local level, where there's the least scrutiny. There are plenty of famous wrongful convictions in the historical record; pardons and retrials are the exception, not the rule.

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