"48 Hours"' Erin Moriarty reflects on iconic CBS News broadcast
October 26, 2012 8:11 AM
To celebrate the 25th season of "48 Hours", correspondent Erin Moriarty shares what makes a good story, the cases that she can't forget, and the pursuit of finding justice.
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See all 22 CommentsHistory teaches that power does not reverse itself but only seeks expansion.
In the 1970's, New York changed its " prisons" into "correctional facilities" under the auspices of fixing the problem. The idea was to not just throw people into a cage, but to "rehabilitate" them by focusing on teaching trades and education-to fill the "inmate's" ( no longer merely "prisoners" ) time productively. Instead, it grew into the monster we have today where much more people are imprisoned for much longer time in order to provide upstate New York with an economy. The natural evolution of such an expansion is to stretch the power to encompass the whole state, rather than separate individual prisons. Issues of injustice and wrongful imprisonment are never actually addressed since those are the methods by which the power feeds itself.
It can not be said the New York does not have an injustice or wrongful conviction problem . The amount of wrongful convictions discovered are a small fraction of those that actually exist.
Most are undiscovered since attorneys , courts, police, and prisons have an interest, political and economical, in keeping the convictions they obtain from being revealed as wrongful. The interests are not in favor of justice no matter how much they declare themselves to be the sole purveyors of justice. Time and again the interests prove to be power at all costs.
In 2006, 1* a report concluded that New York's system of indigent criminal defense has failed its constitutional and legal obligations to provide effective assistance of counsel to the indigent accused. With at least 80% of NY prisoners being the indigent accused, there is a substantial amount of convictions that are not only unreliable and questionable, but outright unconstitutional and illegal. It has became standard procedure to arbitrarily dispose of people, and the idea held by many that those merely accused of crime deserve no rights is already a working reality.
The Civil Commitment mandates are an example of steps in this direction. Where people may be imprisoned not upon any actual act crime, but upon an " authority's" idea of the likelihood to commit a crime. While it applies only to sex offenders at first because nobody likes them, once the practice is established and the bugs worked out it will be applied to all. It was not that long ago that the same tactic was applied to required DNA collecting. . DNA was first required by law to be taken from only sex offenders. Then violent offenders, then all offenders, despite concerns of invasion of privacy, ect. The steady progress of tyranny has always been advanced under such pretended goals of safety, security, and fixing problems.
In the beginning it may sound like a good solution to problems of mass incarceration. But with this ground work laid the future is open for ever greater enslavement of the population. It may present an opportunity to have a captive workforce ready in the community that does not need to be given a salary. It may have other results that are not fully known at this point. But the principle is certain that with New York now one big prison,the problems of injustice will prove to have been multiplied.
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Commission on the Future of Indigent Defense in New York final report to Judge Judith Kaye June 2006
Abuse of the different statutes of limitations is the subject of one of our e-book novels; specifically, a star chamber manipulation of the statute of limitations, among other things. http://youtu.be/Xn0EQUGbLVE
I believe that deviant governance is the main problem, but I am a camper on clueless b each when it comes to solving the problem. Til the final ending of all this legality, the devil will tempt and accuse and God will forgive and instruct. Stay out of jail!
Why is Ferguson so out of it?
It takes a village to help save someone.
I have an idea: Get the Psychic Twins (Terry & Linda Jamison) involved in solving this case. I think once they hear about it, they will be compelled to help!!! They predicted the 9/11 attack and have since been proven to be very reputable psychics Oprah uses them! And even the FBI uses them to solve cases now. I know they can help. That prosecutor is hiding things i would bet my life on it. I think the Psychic twins are by far the best bet right now! Somebody get this info to Erin or Ryan please!!!!!!!!!!
PLEASE. SOMEONE. Help this young man.
These people ruined so many lives...his parents spent everything to free their son and their property will be bought up by some entity that could have connections to this case, who knows? Please follow up on this case! This kept me awake all night! Wrong and evil!
These people ruined so many lives...his parents spent everything to free their son and their property will be bought up by some entity that could have connections to this case, who knows? Please follow up on this case! This kept me awake all night! Wrong and evil!
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