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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This case made me realize that we NEED to change our justice system.

Because cooperating with the police should NOT be used against you in a court of law.

Basically the only people who benefit are those who can afford attorneys.

The only people who are harmed are those who cannot.

Whether Brian is guilty or not, cooperating with the police could have harmed him (about 3-5% of innocent people are in jail).  So advising him to not cooperate was smart.  But that's not right for society.

Also, we have a system where people are determined to be guilty before trial -- e.g., [b]Casey Anthony who was found innocent of murder (incidentally, why are so many of these people in Florida -- OJ, etc?).[/b]  So to avoid that "judgement" in the court of public opinion, people need to run and reinvent themselves (even if they are innocent).

I'm sad for the girl who is dead at such a young age but I'm also sad for our justice system because the boy has been determined to be guilty because he is following legal advice not to cooperate with police.  What a messed up system.[/quote]

Bad example. Casey was totally guilty of drowning her daughter. She even admitted it allegedly a year after the trial knowing that double jeopardy prevented her from being tried for the same crime twice.

And he wasn't determined to be guilty for 'following legal advice', he was guilty for hiding a body, abandoning a crime scene, driving 12 states away to flee the area, and then not informing local law enforcement that a person may be missing or dead.

And if America wasn't so fired up about this crime - he might have gotten away with it. They would have never found her body in the wilderness of a state they weren't even searching if not for the public condemnation and hikers realizing they had footage of the potential perp.[/quote]

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