Never Trust the Judicial Process
It is impossible to trust the judicial process after reading this (via Radley Balko) and realizing that this kind of thing must go on all the time. In fact, our heroes on TV shows engage in behaviors not much more honorable than this. You can't watch a TV crime drama for five minutes without seeing police and prosecutors pressuring witnesses. I was Castle the other day with my 12-year-old daughter (her favorite show, and being a Nathan Fillion fan I am happy to watch it with her) and as usual they were interviewing some suspect and she started doing what has become her habit in these situations -- she started screaming "lawyer -- get a lawyer" at the suspect. Good for her.
