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Innocent individuals suffer due to flawed justice systems
& institutional cover-ups,
exemplified by cases like
The Central Park Five.
1 The circumstances surrounding the case – The environmental factors affecting the trial
It is somewhat an unanswerable question how perfectly innocent children and people end up bearing burdens that are entirely alien to them. Without reason, cause, or origin, someone finds themselves in circumstances or environmental factors that arise without any fault of their own, creating an artificial context where one can act recklessly without restraint.
In the introduction of the website on the homepage, points A through P provide examples and explanations regarding cases that leave you bewildered… cases that render you speechless. Among them are examples that are particularly painful because they involve young children: George Stinney, John Bunn… who find themselves in a flawed justice system. George Stinney, for instance, had a lawyer who was utterly worthless, the case was rushed through, a white jury for a black boy, a fabricated confession obtained in a shockingly deceptive manner, and so forth.
In the following point: 2 “Justice” is a human construct. An explanation of how one can deceive and lead to a skewed situation.
The British Post Office’s actions mirror a pattern where large institutions like itself, including government bodies, resort to concealing problems or injustices, such as those faced by subpostmasters, under the guise of minimizing reputational damage.
Take note: deliberate wrongdoing within entities in the justice system, it mirrors madness. As mentioned in the opening words on the home page
How desvastating it was for the subpostmaster, their families and everyone around them.
What The British Post Office has orchestrated, akin to a Pandora’s box or a real-time Candid Camera, is unprecedented judicial fraud. It is barbaric what they have done to perfectly innocent people. You must read Nick Wallis’s book – ‘The Great Post Office Scandal,’ 562 pages – as the reality in all its details would truly sink in.
In this case, can the loaded language ‘people without conscience’ be mentioned? It is a question that needs to be asked, considering the deliberate crushing of people’s lives.
There’s the shocking case of The Scottsboro Boys (1931). It was clear to everyone that they were completely innocent, yet they still saw their youth slip away behind bars.
Then there’s The Central Park Five (1989), who had nothing to do with the crime they were accused of. Four were shockingly coerced into confessing. Yusef Salaam didn’t confess but still spent 7 years wrongly imprisoned, like the others. Korey Wise spent 13 years because he was 16. These were teenagers of 14 and 15 years old.
It’s heartbreaking, people who know they’ve done nothing wrong yet spend years in prison. Innocent, many never see freedom.
The template for this website. Liam Allan in 2016 in Britain (mentioned in the subtitle on every webpage). He was innocent. Should never have been arrested. A 19-year-old criminology student, lived two years in fear. Evidence of his innocence was in the file weeks before the police arrested him. Prosecutor Jerry Hayes calls it nothing but sheer incompetence.
De omgevingsomstandigheden – De factoren die een rechtszaak beïnvloeden.
Het is een enigzins niet te beantwoorden vraag hoe het komt dat vlekkeloos onschuldige kinderen en mensen een last op hun schouders krijgen die hen volstrekt wereldvreemd is. Zonder reden aanleiding of oorzaak komt iemand in omstandigheden of zijn er omgevingsfactoren die ontstaan zonder enige schuld van betrokkene, en ontstaat er een kunstmatige context waar men ongebreitelt roekeloos kan te werk gaan.
In de inleiding van de website op de homepage in de punten A tot en met P staan voorbeelden en is er toelichting nopens cases waar je verstand stil staat … waarbij je sprakeloos wordt. O.a. voorbeelden die bijzonder veel pijn doen omdat het jonge kinderen zijn: George Stinney, John Bunn … die in een slecht justitie systeem te recht komen. George Stinney had o.a. een advocaat die echt niks waard was, de zaak werd afgehaspelt, een blanke jury voor een zwarte jongen, een gefabriceerde bekentenis op een schokkend bedriegelijke wijze tot stand gekomen enzovoort.
In het volgende punt: 2 “Justice” is a human construct. Een toelichting hoe men zand kan in de ogen strooit en men tot een scheefgetrokken situatie komt.
De acties van de Britse Post Office weerspiegelen een patroon waarbij grote instellingen zoals zijzelf, inclusief overheidsinstanties, ervoor kiezen om problemen of onrechtvaardigheden, zoals die waarmee subpostmeesters worden geconfronteerd, te verdoezelen onder het mom van het minimaliseren van reputatieschade.
Merk op” :deliberate wrongdoing within entities in the justice system, it mirrors madness. Zoals vermeld in de eerste woorden op de home page
Hoe vernietigend was het voor de subpostmaster, hun familie en iedereen om hen heen.
Wat The Britisch Post Office heeft in elkaar gestoken als trukendoos, of realtime Candid Camera, is ongezien justitie fraude. Het is barbaars wat ze hebben gedaan tegenover vlekkeloos onschuldige mensen. Je moet het boek lezen van Nick Wallis – The Great Post Office Scandal, 562 pagina’s, omdat de werkelijkheid in al zijn details zou tot je doordringen.
Mag in dit geval het beladen taalgebruik vermeld worden: ‘mensen zonder geweten’? Het is een vraag die hoort gesteld te worden, rekening met bewust verbrijzelen van het leven van mensen.
Er is de schokkende case The Scottsboro Boys (1931). Het was voor iedereen duidelijk dat ze volstrekt onschuldig waren, maar toch zagen ze hun jeugdjaren in de gevangenis voorbijgaan.
Er is The Central Park Five (1989), die niets te maken hadden met het misdrijf waarvan ze werden beschuldigd. Vier werden op schokkende wijze tot een bekentenis gedwongen. Yusef Salaam heeft geen bekentenis afgelegd doch zat zoals de anderen 7 jaar onschuldig in de gevangenis. Korey Wise 13 omdat 16 jaar was. Het zijn wel jongeren van 14 en 15 jaar.
Het is hartverscheurend, mensen die weten dat ze niets verkeerd hebben gedaan en toch jarenlang in de gevangenis. Onschuldig, velen komen nooit vrij.
De template voor deze website. Liam Allan in 2016 in Groot-Brittannië (vermeld in de subtitel op elke webpagina). Hij was onschuldig. Had nooit gearresteerd mogen worden. Een 19-jarige criminologie student, leefde twee jaar in angst. Het bewijs van zijn onschuld zat al enkele weken in het dossier voordat de politie hem arresteerde. Procureur Jerry Hayes noemt het niets anders dan pure onbekwaamheid.
1 Bryan’s interview – USA – #HUMAN
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11 sep 2015
Bryan Stevenson is a lawyer. A strenuous defender of human rights, he founded the Equal Justice Initiative to fight against racial discrimination in the US judicial system. He is particularly sensitive to the cause of young people who are sentenced to life imprisonment and to the death penalty in the United States.
In order to share this unique image bank everywhere and for everyone,
HUMAN exist in several version :
A theatre version (3h11) , a tv version (2h11) and a 3 volumes version for the web
2 Bryan A. Stevenson, Johns Hopkins University’s 2018 Commencement Speaker
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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
4 Glynn Simmons conviction vacated, new trial granted
5 Post Office Board knew about Horizon system flaws and exclusive document show insurers were alerted
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18 jan 2024
As the Post Office Inquiry continues to hear testimony, more and more details are coming to light about who knew what when.
Back in 2019, the Post Office spent at least a-hundred-million pounds still defending the Horizon system when more than five hundred subpostmasters won their landmark settlement.
Tonight, we’ve seen documents that appear to show that the Post Office Board was aware of the Horizon system’s failures back in 2013 – indeed it was so worried about a potential miscarriage of justice that it alerted its insurers.
6 Post office inquiry: Fujitsu manager called bankrupted subpostmaster ‘nasty chap’
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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28 mrt 2024
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 jan 2024
The Post Office Horizon IT scandal is the most widespread miscarriage of justice in UK history, with 900 postmasters wrongly taken to court.
The Times reporter, Tom Witherow, has everything you need to know.
9 Covert recordings prove Post Office covered up scandal for years
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27 mrt 2024
When the public inquiry into the Horizon scandal resumes next month, Post Office executives will again be questioned over what they knew, when, and what they did about it.
This programme has obtained secret recordings of conversations over a decade ago between senior Post Office executives and the independent forensic accountants hired to find out whether sub-postmasters were to blame for the shortfalls at branches using the Horizon system. And, as we exclusively report, they prove beyond doubt that the Post Office covered up the scandal for years as they continued to pursue innocent employees through the courts.
Produced by Nanette van der Laan.
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10 Secret tape reveals Paula Vennells was told of faulty Horizon software | ITV News
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28 mrt 2024
A secret audio recording obtained by ITV News has revealed Post Office boss Paula Vennells was told directly about problems with the Horizon system and warned not to cover them up.
In a meeting with independent investigators from Second Sight on July 2, 2013, Ms Vennells was made aware of allegations that sub-postmaster branch accounts could be accessed remotely.
This is something the Post Office had denied for years.
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
13 mrt 2024
Hundreds of subpostmasters wrongly convicted in the Post Office Horizon IT scandal could be one step closer to clearing their names and claiming compensation as a new law is introduced to Parliament today.
Post Office Minister Kevin Hollinrake shares a timeline of when subpostmasters should start to receive compensation.
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13 ‘All Post Office convictions to be overturned by July’ – Post office minister
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13 mrt 2024
The Post Office minister has told Sky News all sub-postmasters convicted over the faulty Horizon software will have their convictions quashed by July and receive compensation by August.
Kevin Hollinrake said the government had moved “exceptionally quickly” as new legislation comes in today that will exonerate those convicted in England and Wales on the basis of the faulty Horizon accounting software.
He also commented on racist remarks made by Frank Hester, the conservatives biggest donor, saying the Tories “don’t need to return the money” for making comments about Diane Abbott following his apology.
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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18 jan 2024
As the Post Office Inquiry continues to hear testimony, more and more details are coming to light about who knew what when.
Back in 2019, the Post Office spent at least a-hundred-million pounds still defending the Horizon system when more than five hundred subpostmasters won their landmark settlement.
Tonight, we’ve seen documents that appear to show that the Post Office Board was aware of the Horizon system’s failures back in 2013 – indeed it was so worried about a potential miscarriage of justice that it alerted its insurers.
16 “There Was A COVERUP!” – Journalist On Compensation Delays For Post Office Scandal Victims
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16 jan 2024
The boss of Fujitsu has apologised to subpostmasters and said there is a “moral obligation” for the technology giant to contribute to the compensation.
Fujitsu Europe director Paul Patterson faced a grilling by MPs on Tuesday alongside Post Office boss Nick Read, as public and political anger continues over the Horizon scandal.
The role played by the Japanese firm has come under the spotlight, with Mr Patterson opening the hearing by offering an apology for the “appalling miscarriage of justice” suffered by postmasters.
“We were involved from the very start. We did have bugs and errors in the system. And we did help the Post Office in their prosecutions of subpostmasters. For that we are truly sorry,” he told the Business and Trade Committee.
The global boss of Fujitsu, Takahito Tokita, told the BBC in Davos that his firm “apologised for the impact on the postmasters’ lives and their families”, but declined to confirm it would return any of the money it earned from the flawed Horizon system.
Journalist Nick Wallis discusses the scandal with Rosanna Lockwood:
“Why is it that we have a prosecution of innocent people, a coverup and then an incompetent array of compensation schemes!”
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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14 jan 2024
Are Britain’s institutions tarnished after the Post Office scandal? ‘It is more than just a perversion of justice, it is a grotesque scandal. And it seems to me that quite a few people are culpable in at least turning a blind eye’
Barrister, Steven Barrett, comments on the Post Office scandal.
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
21 Duncan Atkinson – Day 71 AM (05 October 2023) – Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry
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
The men are the subject of “When They See Us,” an upcoming Netflix mini-series from filmmaker Ava DuVernay, which tells the story from the standpoint of the teenagers falsely accused of a brutal rape in 1989. CBS2’s Maurice DuBois reports.
Why is the word called “Justice” so complicated now a days?Justice is indefinable.
There is no science of justice.
Justice involves the judicial system and money to get through that system.
Lawyers are the highest paid profession, but with almost 76% job dissatisfaction.
One must pay for justice in the US, especially if one is a person of color. If that money is not paid, then it’s for-profit prison time.
There are probably thousands of people who, right now, are in a jail cell because they didn’t have cash on them upon arrest, have no one to call to help them get the $50 court fee paid.
The cash bail system must end, said one Senator Bernie Sanders.
So many people incarcerated and the public must pay to house and feed them, some who are there for no more than marijuana—it’s not rehabilitation—it aggregates similar types together in such a way that recidivism becomes more likely.
Some consider justice as revenge. Others consider justice as punishment.
Justice is for-profit prisons nowadays, at the public expense. It is corruption.
Waarom is het woord “Justitie” tegenwoordig zo ingewikkeld? Justitie is ondefinieerbaar.
Er is geen wetenschap van Justitie.
Justitie omvat het gerechtelijk systeem en geld om door dat systeem te komen.
Advocaten zijn de best betaalde beroepsgroep, maar met bijna 76% ontevredenheid over hun baan.
Men moet betalen voor justitie in de VS, vooral als men een persoon van kleur is. Als dat geld niet wordt betaald, dan is het tijd voor winstgevende gevangenisstraf.
Er zijn waarschijnlijk duizenden mensen die op dit moment in een cel zitten omdat ze geen geld bij zich hadden bij hun arrestatie, niemand hebben om te bellen om hen te helpen de $50 rechtbankkosten te betalen.
Het borgsysteem moet eindigen, zei senator Bernie Sanders.
Zoveel mensen zijn gevangen en het publiek moet betalen om hen te huisvesten en te voeden, sommigen zijn er alleen voor marihuana – het is geen rehabilitatie – het groepeert soortgelijke types op zo’n manier samen dat recidive waarschijnlijker wordt.
Sommigen beschouwen justitie als wraak. Anderen beschouwen justitie als straf.
Justitie is tegenwoordig voor winstgevende gevangenissen, op kosten van het publiek. Het is corruptie.
James Emerson studied Philosophy, undergraduate and graduate 3 y
23 Little Girl Arrested for Selling Lemonade Prank – Just For Laughs Gags
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!