If prosecutors gin up the frame before the innocent men enter the courtroom, and the jury sentences the innocent men to life in prison for a murder they did not commit, and after twenty-five years of imprisonment the men are exonerated and freed, they can sue the prosecution for framing them, right?
Not according to the prosecutors in question, who say that “there is no freestanding right not to be framed.” The Obama administration agrees. Wouldn’t want fear of lawsuits influencing prosecutorial decisions. Unlike elections and race, as in the case of Iowa prosecutors who coached a witness to perjure before an all-white jury so they could convict two black men from out of town in an election year. The story is at NPR.
Has a king ever died for his people? No, unless His name is Christ. Treat others the way you want others to treat you is an enlightened message Christ had for people. But kings of other countries and presidents, judges and prosecutors of this glorious ‘democratic’ nation that gave communist China the ‘Most Favored Nation’ status while refusing to acknowledge Taiwan as an independent, democratic country, would, of course, make the willful framing of innocent people legal. Of course. Why not? This is the true soul of this nation as it has twisted itself to be. They will never have to pay the price they have so generously shoved on top of someone else’s head. God forbid they should actually follow the words of Christ and treat others the way they themselves would like to be treated. My goodness! They might be called Christians! This cannot be tolerated, even though they can easily tolerate injustice against the innocent.
It’s a shame that nothing the administration or lofty Supreme Court says is worth even a bowl of stale chips.