Is This Still Justice?

The gavel, the scales, and the books of law

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Innocent individuals suffer due to flawed justice systems
& institutional cover-ups,
exemplified by cases like
The Central Park Five.

Is this still a society?

Is this still a church?

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Are you still  human?

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Deceptive Justice

1 The circumstances surrounding the case – The environmental factors affecting the trial

1 Bryan’s interview – USA – #HUMAN

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2 Bryan A. Stevenson, Johns Hopkins University’s 2018 Commencement Speaker

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Gepubliceerd op 24 mei 2018

Johns Hopkins Universitywide Commencement Ceremony
May 24, 2018
Royal Farms Arena
Commencement Speaker: Bryan Stevenson

Link to Commencement Program PDF: https://commencement.jhu.edu/wp-conte…

More information at: https://commencement.jhu.edu/

More coverage of Johns Hopkins Commencement Week: https://hub.jhu.edu/2018/05/24/commen…

2 “Justice” is a human construct

It is like most features of human society. In the sense that some concept of fairness and justice is something that is a part of essentially every known human society, yes, it does exist.

Human societies have rules and norms, and there are consequences for those who transgress them, ranging from mild social disapproval to execution.

There is no evidence that some kind of “cosmic justice” or “karma” or “ultimate justice” or anything like that exist. And of course, societies have had different concepts of justice. While societies generally prohibit things like murder and theft, they have often had very different ideas as to what constitutes a murder or a theft.
In Nazi Germany, for example, it was considered acceptable to kill and take things from Jews and other “undesirable” parts of the population, and this was not punishable as a murder or a theft.
Indeed, it was encouraged. The same would be true for, say, a Mongol warrior under Genghis Khan.

Standards of justice also evolve. For example, in 15th century England, it would be considered justice to execute someone in extremely brutal and painful ways, even for crimes we might today consider relatively minor such as theft.
In England today, such an act would be seen as unjust and barbaric, even for the very worst and most heinous crimes.

So, yes, justice exists as an abstract concept, and as a concrete practice. But it isn’t the same across the board, and it’s also evolved as a concept a great deal through time.

As to the details, that a lot of bad people get away with what they do? Yes, that’s true. Similarly, a lot of good people are not rewarded for what they’ve done right, or sometimes even come to harm because of it. Justice, as a human institution, is flawed and doesn’t always work even as it’s set up and structured.

This isn’t Hollywood. The good guys don’t always win, and the bad guys don’t always suffer in the end. Sometimes, they take their ill-gotten gains, run off to an island somewhere, and spend the rest of their life enjoying them.
Sometimes, brutal dictators live out their lives in luxury, slaughtering thousands, and die peacefully in their sleep at the end of a long life. Such is real life.

3 Glynn Simmons officially declared innocent

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23 dec 2023
 
Glynn Simmons officially declared innocent
 
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4 Glynn Simmons conviction vacated, new trial granted

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22 jul 2023
 
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5 Post Office Board knew about Horizon system flaws and exclusive document show insurers were alerted

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6 Post office inquiry: Fujitsu manager called bankrupted subpostmaster ‘nasty chap’

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18 jan 2024

A Fujitsu employee called a subpostmaster who was bankrupted by the company’s faulty computer system a “nasty chap” in not-seen-before email sent internally in 2003.

Peter Sewell, who was in the Post Office Account Security Team at Fujitsu, said that Lee Carrington was a “nasty man” after the subpostmaster had threatened the company with legal action after losing all his money due to no fault of his own.

Fujitsu provided the Post Office with the Horizon computer system for individual subpostmasters. This system wrongly said that hundreds of subpostmasters had been committing fraud and more than 700 were wrongly convicted.

The email was revealed at the ongoing Post Office Horizon Inquiry.

British Post Office scandal

The British Post Office scandal, sometimes called the Horizon IT scandal, arose from faulty software, provided by Fujitsu and known as Horizon, creating false shortfalls in the accounts of thousands of subpostmasters. It has been described as one of the most widespread miscarriages of justice in British history.

7 Post Office scandal: outrage as Channel 4 News reveals covert recordings

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There’s growing anger among politicians following the secret recordings – aired in our exclusive report on this programme last night – that prove Post Office bosses covered up the Horizon IT scandal for years.

The audio reveals that executives knew as far back as 2013 that subpostmasters’ accounts could be accessed remotely and altered without their knowledge. Pressure is also growing for the Post Office to face criminal action.

8 The most widespread miscarriage of justice in UK history explained | Post Office Horizon IT scandal

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9 Covert recordings prove Post Office covered up scandal for years


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10 Secret tape reveals Paula Vennells was told of faulty Horizon software | ITV News

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11 Horizon scandal: More than £1m claimed as Post Office ‘profit’ may have come from sub-postmasters

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28 mrt 2024

More than £1m of unexplained transactions were transferred in to Post Office profit at the height of the Horizon scandal, leaked documents have shown.

The papers, seen by Sky News, show a snapshot of transfers from a Post Office “miscellaneous client” suspense account over a four-year period, up to 2014.

A suspense account is where unexplained, or disputed, transactions remain until they are able to be “reconciled”.

The Post Office released a statement in response to the findings, saying: “The statutory public inquiry, chaired by a judge with the power to question witnesses under oath, is the best forum to examine the issues raised by this evidence.

“We continue to remain fully focused on supporting the inquiry to get to the truth of what happened and accountability for that.”

12 Post Office Scandal: One Step Closer to Clearing Their Names and Receiving Compensation

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13 ‘All Post Office convictions to be overturned by July’ – Post office minister

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14 Union representing sub-postmasters repeatedly ignored Horizon IT concerns | ITV News

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20 mrt 2024

How was it the Post Office were able to go about criminalising hundreds of innocent people for more than a decade without as much as a peep from the National Federation of Subpostmasters (NFSP), which represents the vast majority of self-employed sub-postmasters?

ITV News can reveal that the union repeatedly ignored concerns over Horizon IT.

Nick Wallis reports.

15 Post Office Board knew about Horizon system flaws and exclusive document show insurers were alerted

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16 “There Was A COVERUP!” – Journalist On Compensation Delays For Post Office Scandal Victims

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17 Fujitsu CEO Apologizes For Post Office Scandal: Victims Finally Get Recognition

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17 jan 2024

The CEO of Fujitsu, a technology company involved in the post office scandal, has issued a long-awaited apology for the mistreatment of sub-postmasters. The scandal, which saw hundreds of sub-postmasters accused of theft and fraud, has now been revealed to potentially involve the diversion of funds to post office executives.

The shocking admission by the current post office chief executive, Nick Reid, has raised questions about the whereabouts of the money that sub-postmasters paid back. It is possible that some of these funds ended up in the pockets of executives as part of their hefty remuneration packages.

 

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18 ‘It’s a GROTESQUE scandal’ | Are Britain’s institutions tarnished after the Post Office scandal?

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19 Post Office scandal: Pundit exposes who is REALLY to blame for scandal

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20 Trouble at Post Office – Panorama – 17th August 2015

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17th August 2015
 
Part 1 – the second part, following the outcome of the trials, was due to air on March 23 2020 but was replaced by a Covid 19 programme. Will be shown later this year.

21 Duncan Atkinson – Day 71 AM (05 October 2023) – Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry

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Why Wasn’t Post Office Horizon Inquiry Expert Duncan Atkinson Thorough & Conscientious? #seemamisra

 

 

22 mrt 2024

Seema Misra references Nick Wallis’s book “The Great Post Office Scandal” in her 17th February 2022 witness statement to the post office horizon IT inquiry (p.7).

She also states on page 7 of her statement, in relation to the content of Nick Wallis’s book “These pages explain in a way which brings home the reality more than I ever could…”

Nick Wallis stated in his book that it was Josephine Hamilton who told Seema Misra about Computer Weekly and Rebecca Thomson.

3 How exactly do we define justice these days?

When I went to law school, I really wanted to be a prosecutor. To put the bad guys away and rid the society of scum. One day I mentioned it to the judge I clerked for and he suggested I sit through a morning of the criminal court’s hearings. So I did.

There were a lot of people in the courtroom and multiple hearings. Both prosecutors and defenders seemed woefully unprepared. They didn’t remember witnesses’ names, looked exhausted, overwhelmed with work, and, frankly, like they couldn’t care less.

There was a young man who was charged with resisting the arrest (prompted by an outstanding warrant) and possessing unregistered weapon or something like that. His lawyer and the prosecutor had stood to the side before the hearing and laughed and chatted. They made a deal that he basically got off with barely a slap on the wrist.

After that morning, I changed my mind about becoming a prosecutor. And I view justice as inefficient and flawed.

22 Wrongly Convicted Defendants In Central Park Five Case Speak Out

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23 Little Girl Arrested for Selling Lemonade Prank – Just For Laughs Gags

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29 feb 2016

Who would dare handcuff a girl that young? Oh wait. We would! Watch this prank as this little girl gets arrested for her lemonade stand!

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