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Originally Posted by lostalex

We all agree the justice system is ****ed up....

but what if it was a 100% certainty that the person was guilty of the worst crimes, like rape, torture, murder.

But a lot of the time it's not a 100% certainty, it's only the most serious of crimes that get a proper analysis and even then you're relying on teams of lawyers trying to convince an impartial group of people to believe their argument - human error is always going to be a factor and I just don't feel confident that any trial can 100% prove someone's innocence or guilt - it's all based on arguing a point of view that a jury of people of different backgrounds, beliefs and abilities can most easily digest and come to a consensus on - if you have somebody accused of rape, that really is just somebody's word against somebody else's so the lawyers are trying to set up the scene around those words and make you not believe the accused/not believe the accuser... Certainly in murder trials there's forensic evidence but that's not fool proof either and how many stories have we heard of people being put away for crimes they didn't commit even now?