Why is it that RICH Americans walk free from a trial but POOR ones go to jail or to Death Row?

Question

Why is it that RICH Americans walk free from a trial but POOR ones go to jail or to Death Row?

Answer 1

Why do you experience that banking equates to aggravated attack? What you probably did replaced into infantile, stupid and based in "your" lack of self belief and jealousy. you have gotten killed somebody. Your lack of ability to behave as a "generic" guy or woman is why you would be able to desire to bypass to detention center as you may't seem to regulate your insecurities.

Answer 2

Can you proof a rich murderer wwent free from court?

From which country are you from?

Answer 3

Aside from flat out travesties of justice (OJ) I'd guess that you're visualizing Ken Lay or Martha Stuart compared to the ghetto punk that shot Tupac or Biggie. Those aren't exactly parallel offenses.

Answer 4

Not always the case, to be fair, the poor do account for the majority of murders in the US.

Answer 5

Um... Martha Stewart?

Answer 6

Because the poor ones don't have enough money to contribut to anyones "electorial campaign fund" or build a new wing in the judges kids college.

Answer 7

Because the rich ones can afford smart people to find a loop hole in the system. For instance being able to show that the glove does not fit, therefore someone planted it and all otehr evidence is invalidated. It is really a simple reason.

Answer 8

because they could afford good atty

Answer 9

Actually, the percentage of celebraties that walk is about the same as the percentage of 'poor' people who walk. Conviction rates at trial used to be over 90%, the rates have been falling and in some major metropolitan areas are down in the 65% - 70% range. The big differences are (1) the big celeb trials make the papers and (2) 80 to 90% of the 'poor' plea guilty to something and do not go to trial.

The two big celeb trials, OJ and Blakely are especially unique in that the juries were stupid, stupid, stupid. And in the OJ case, at least, the DAs were incredibly inept.

Of course, it was not the jurors fault that they were stupid. They were picked because each one claimed to have no opinion, which meant they had no connection to current events. In the OJ case they also had to be locked up in a hotel for the duration, which meant that the jurors had either no jobs or dead end jobs and no family or social life.

Further, with the massive publicity and cameras all around, the jurors got the idea that they were really in a TV show, such as Law & Order or CSI, where the obvious suspect is never the real criminal and all loose ends are tied up before the credits roll. A real trial, like real life ends up with loose ends, and 99% of the time the obvious suspect did do it.