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Today, the three Duke lacrosse players were acquitted of all charges that they sexually assaulted a stripper. The legal expenses are estimated at three million. This psycho justice wasted not only a year of the players’ lives, but a year of the lives of their mothers, fathers, friends, and relatives as well. Collectively, perhaps 30 man-years were wasted. If Americans only knew how this affects all those even remotely connected to the victims.

The three white Duke Lacrosse players were indicted last spring on charges of rape, kidnapping and sexual offense after a black stripper from a nearby University told police she was assaulted in the bathroom at an off-campus house during a team party where she had been hired to perform. The rape charges were dropped months ago; the other charges remained until Wednesday.

The eyewitness identification procedures were unreliable, no DNA supported the stripper’s story, no other witness corroborated it, and the woman contradicted herself. DNA failed to connect any of the athletes to the 28-year-old stripper. One of the athletes claimed to have ATM receipts and time-stamped photos that provided an alibi. It was also learned that the stripper had leveled similar gang-rape allegations a decade ago, and no charges resulted.

The lacrosse players faced 30 years in prison.

In December, The first state prosecutor dropped the rape charges after the woman said she was no longer certain she was penetrated.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/lacrosse/2007-04-11-duke-caseclosed_N.htm?csp=34

The loss to the men and the families was three million dollars plus thirty man-years worth of intense suffering due to the torturous threat of fifteen-year jail sentences, a lifetime of irreparably tarnished reputations plus the loss of affinity and respect for the college, state and government. At least thirty people are in need of intense therapy to lessen the effects of suppression by government.

What did the stripper suffer due to the actions of the boys? Speculatively the biggest threat may have been the potential for disease (if there was any contact with the men.) Speculatively there may also been some mental anguish – but healthy people tolerate mental anguish sloughing it off as a defect on their tormentor and not as any frailty on their part. Many have suffered worse in auto accidents or on the field of play without recompense.

This society is guilty of not only tremendously disproportionate punishment, but the threat of disproportionate punishment. This society is also guilty of an extremely expensive and dragged out legal process that can, and probably does kill (stress related diseases like heart attacks and suicide). According to my calculations, government should be required to pay at least five million in damages. However, according to a TV lawyer, government is immune from prosecution.

“If police officers and a district attorney can systematically railroad us with absolutely no evidence whatsoever, I can’t imagine what they would do to people who do not have the resources to defend themselves.” Another of the players, Collin Finnerty, said he would use this experience to stop “this ever happening again”.

The main reason that the American courts are endemically incompetent is that the people that run the system don’t know what is wrong with the system. The managers of the court systems don’t know what is wrong because the users, the lawyers and citizens, are never interrogated regarding each and every experience with each and every part of the court system. The flaws in the system are never organized into a database that is accessible for everyone to see.

Drug manufactures know that only one in a thousand (1/1000th) of the serious reactions to the drugs they manufacture are ever reported. It’s plausible, even predictable, that the same is true of the American court system. It’s likely that less than 1/1000th of the problems of the courts system ever are reported.

The problems of the court are not only not scientifically sought, but they would never be recorded by any database simply because no database is available. This database should be searchable and sortable. This database should be not only available, but also advertised. The option of keeping names private should be an option of the database.

Needless to say, few errors are ever fixed as few come to the attention of the newspapers and the media. It is hard for a person to report an error if it is his first encounter with the system. It is impossible to report an error if the judge doesn’t even give a reason for his decision. It is impossible to report an error if your lawyer hasn’t even been educated in potentially better systems and he can’t even explain the breakdown that caused failure. Intimidation by the courts and the police also prevent the reporting of errors. The legislators and judges are either in denial or apathy. Thus the system is rotten and stays that way.

By PAT MILTON, Associated Press Writers

NEW YORK – Three police officers surrendered Monday to face charges in the shooting that killed a groom on his wedding day.

The policemen, accused of firing most of the 50 shots at three young men in a car outside a nightclub, were being fingerprinted and processed Monday morning before their arraignment.

Michael Oliver, who fired 31 times, and Gescard Isnora, who fired 11 bullets, face felony manslaughter charges, according to a person close to the investigation, who spoke with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the results were secret. Marc Cooper, who fired four shots, faces a misdemeanor endangerment charge, the person said.

Grand jurors declined to indict on the more serious counts of second-degree murder, and attempted murder, or the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide. Two other officers involved in the shooting were not indicted.

“We are a long way from a conviction,” said defense attorney Philip Karasyk, who represents Isnora.

Prosecutors have declined to discuss the grand jury’s work until the findings are officially released.

The Nov. 25 shooting killed Sean Bell and severely injured two of his bachelor party guests.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070319/ap_on_re_us/police_shooting

Dear Administrator:

Hi, I have suffered attacks that I believe may have been perpetrated by the FBI, police or other government agency. At least the police had been attacking me in one form or another since I was 15. Also attacks with lrad put me in the hospital I believe this because the level of attacks were to advanced Including the psychotronic attacks. Also attacks with lrad or a similar loud attack method with the same sound as Lrad, called the attack mode or an aversion tone. After a night of attack(1-1-2001) from after midnight till the morning, and peeing brown I went to the hospital. With a false diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia they attacked me with an attempt to have me commit suicide or to appear unstable and get an extended stay. As long as they had me there I couldn’t escape and they could threaten and torcher at will. When I got out in twelve days my phone and Internet services had been sabotaged. AOL or “America on Line” claimed something like a thousand messages had been sent in less than 5 minutes and this automatically closed the account. And I had no telephone I believe they said someone had closed the account thinking I was going to another company, and it would take so many days to be reconnected. Suffering from ,”Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome”. I also believe the battery in my car was dead, leaving me isolated for even another month. With no way to cry out for help.

We have to talk. The attacks went on for years before and after these particular events, but this is where they went in for the kill. They were also saying police had found bomb making materials at my house. While I was in there. I asked,” who said I had bomb making materials”, but they said they didn’t know , and asked me,” wasn’t I afraid that I would be arrested if I got discharged”, telling me I could stay longer and couldn’t be arrested if I stayed.

Sincerely yours,

Pete

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