All the miscarriages of justice in this thread and the vast majority that are in the news are when people are found guilty and end up in prison.
I suspect that there is another largely ignored miscarriage of justice, when people are accused of crimes they did not commit, are subject to often long and embarrassing police investigations, only to be saved when the Sheriff or Judge finds the person not guilty, or the case is otherwise dropped by the prosecutor due to insufficient or exculpatory evidence.
I am thinking of cases which the police should not have put to court in the first place and only did so because they failed in their duty to conduct full, fair and proper investigations.
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"Criminal waste of time: Suspects walk free as 10,000 cases a year are dropped by court prosecutors due to insufficient evidence
A DAILY RECORD investigation revealed a huge number of failed cases has been blamed on a culture within Police Scotland to report more crimes in a bid to boost detection rates."
I think far more attention should be paid to how well the police investigated a crime whereby the aim is to reduce the number of miscarriages of justice, not just for those found guilty, but those found not guilty.
I suspect that there is another largely ignored miscarriage of justice, when people are accused of crimes they did not commit, are subject to often long and embarrassing police investigations, only to be saved when the Sheriff or Judge finds the person not guilty, or the case is otherwise dropped by the prosecutor due to insufficient or exculpatory evidence.
I am thinking of cases which the police should not have put to court in the first place and only did so because they failed in their duty to conduct full, fair and proper investigations.
http://ift.tt/2ggEXuh
"Criminal waste of time: Suspects walk free as 10,000 cases a year are dropped by court prosecutors due to insufficient evidence
A DAILY RECORD investigation revealed a huge number of failed cases has been blamed on a culture within Police Scotland to report more crimes in a bid to boost detection rates."
I think far more attention should be paid to how well the police investigated a crime whereby the aim is to reduce the number of miscarriages of justice, not just for those found guilty, but those found not guilty.
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