Well look at that!
I go several days with out writing a single word and this morning I just can’t stop the brain from running with these topics!
So sit back, relax, read my posts and comment your thoughts!
I always have a ton of things I want to write about but then can never think of a good title to grab a readers attention, so hopefully I’m getting better at that!
So a question for everyone reading...
What does: “innocent until proven guilty“ mean?
Does it mean, depending on the crime? Or depending on who?
As a legal assistant for defense attorneys innocent until proven guilty is what we stand by and say all the time! It should be the court that tries to prove guilt! But that’s not how it works today is it?
Most of the time the person is Considered guilty and then they go into court with their defense team and work hard to prove their innocent!
For example, a women can say a man sexually altered her with no proof and the man’s life is already destroyed!
So this topic is very close to my heart because my son went thru this recently!! When my son was 12 years old he was falsely accused by the only family he truly loved and felt safe and supported by!
Our world was turned upside down in a matter of minutes! We went from being a very close family that talked every single day and had dinners together, shopping together and camping fishing you name it, to no longer talking or even being civil to each other just like that!
Note I am not a naive parent! I know I’m coming up to the age where he will be curious and experiment but he is not there yet at all! I believe my son 100% that he did not hurt his cousin that he adored!
He was charged with a felony sexual assault with absolutely no proof, no physical evidence just her word (5 year old) against his! From the start he was treated absolutely guilty he had house arrest and hundreds of rules and detectives dropping in to our home with no notice! What??? He’s 12 and he’s innocent!
We hired an attorney who was confident in the case! My little boy had to appear in front of the judge with his lawyer and court supervision person! He looked so small and so scared! But he was brave and told the judge he was not guilty! The court said basically we hear that all day and jails are full of innocent people! (Nice Judy right?). The judge and the DA order my son to take a polygraph test in Salem! Ummm ok I’m fine with that because I know my boy is telling the truth, but wait if it truly was innocent until proven guilty then why didn’t the 5 year old have to take a polygraph to prove she was telling the truth?!
Again, as a parent, I see this small scared little guy walk into this big building to take a polygraph test where mom and dad can not be anywhere near him!
I’d like to mention right here that trains comes in many different forms!
Well, after an hour my boy is finally done and comes out like he owned the place! The polygraph tech started she could not tell us anything at all but that the results would be sent to Matthews attorneys that day!!!
We get home and nothing for days...,
I call his attorney and he says the judge is reviewing g the polygraph we will let you know!!! Then several days later still no word! So apparently you really are viewed as guilty first and foremost! The judge did not believe the test results so he sent them off to another polygraph expert to compare!!!
MY SON 100% PASSED THE POLYGRAPH!!!!
So say the least our justice system sucks and it feels like they really try to get kids into the system young and keep them in trouble or something!!!
Like I have said in earlier posts our family has suffered a lot of trauma!
I think maybe a follow up to this post may be a post about forgiveness! We shall see
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