Prosecutors Would Rather Win a Case than Seek Justice
In my article Putting As Many People as Possible in Jail is Not The True Mission of Prosecutors, I pleaded with all prosecutors visiting my website: "Read this carefully: the job of a prosecutor in a criminal prosecution is not to win the case, but to see justice done."
I made this plea as a result of more than three decades of researching thousands of criminal cases where it quickly became apparent to me that prosecutors in this country were achieving astounding conviction rates near 100% because they were unfairly manipulating grand juries, fabricating evidence, withholding exculpatory material from defense attorneys, encouraging police to coerce false confessions, suborning perjury (inducing a witness to give false testimony under oath), and whatever other misdeed required to attain a conviction regardless of the guilt or innocence of the defendant.
In a number of my articles you will find documented evil prosecutors such as douche-bag and former Texas prosecutor John Bradley, low-life, lying scumbag Texas District Judge Ken Anderson, piece-of-crap former District Attorney George Skumanick Jr., evil and dangerous idiot State Attorney Angela Corey, and the immoral, lying piece of ratshit former district attorney for Durham County, North Carolina Mike Nifong.
Very, very few prosecutors seek justice, serve justice, or do justice. 99.9% place the advancement of their careers above the search for justice.
Very few prosecutors will admit this publicly. But here is one who admits that winning the case was more important than justice:
ABC News, 18 Apr 2015, Exonerated Death Row Inmate Meets the Former Prosecutor Who Put Him There
When Glenn Ford walked out of prison for the first time in 30 years, he ... had been one of the longest-serving death row inmates in the United States.
He was convicted in 1984, but then exonerated of first-degree murder after a new informant came forward and cleared him of the crime...
The person responsible for putting Ford behind bars is Marty Stroud, who prosecuted the original case back in 1984.
Stroud has now apologized to Ford, writing in a letter to the editor of the Shreveport Times in Shreveport, Louisiana, “I was not as interested in justice as I was in winning. ... I apologize to Glenn Ford for all the misery I have caused him and his family.”
“That case, I’ll never be able to put it to rest,” Stroud told “Nightline.”
Ford’s case began in 1983, when Isadore Rozeman, a local watch dealer in Shreveport, was found shot dead inside his home repair shop. Within days, the police zeroed in on Ford, who had done yard work for the victim.
Ford was put on trial and after seven days. Even though there were no eyewitnesses and no murder weapon, the jury came back with a guilty verdict and a death sentence, sending Ford to death row.
At the time, Stroud said he was “very pleased” with the verdict and went out and celebrated. But now, he is saying it wasn’t a fair fight.
“The deck was stacked on one end,” he said.
Ford’s court-appointed defense team had almost no experience and no resources.
“The lawyers had never even stepped foot in the courtroom before,” Clements said. “They never tried a case and here they are defending a capital case.”
Stroud reluctantly admitted he further stacked the deck against Ford by ensuring that the jury was all white.
“I knew I was excluding individuals we felt would not seriously consider the death penalty,” he said. “Looking back on it, I was not as sensitive to the issue of race as I am now.”
Ford’s outmatched defense team was also never told about the confidential informants working for law enforcement who pointed the finger at two other suspects, brothers Henry and Jake Robinson, for Rozeman’s murder.
Ford had told police the brothers gave him some items to pawn -- items, Ford later learned, that were stolen from the murdered watch dealer’s home.
While Ford sat on death row, the brothers remained free and, according to authorities, may be responsible for five other homicides. Both brothers are now in jail charged with other crimes. Neither, however, is charged with Rozeman’s murder.
Hmmm, Ford's attorneys were never informed that two brothers really committed the crime? That would mean this turd, this prosecutor knew that Ford was innocent and yet had no qualms seeing him possibly executed.
There is no difference between Stroud and all other prosecutors in this country. At least he admits what all other prosecutors actually do.
