What is the most unfair and undeserved punishment you ever got as a kid/teen?
When I was maybe 4 or 5 years old, my mother and I went to a neighbors house to have a meal with some of their friends. I was the only kid there, and I don’t recall knowing any of the other adults except our neighbor.I guess because of me we were leaving earlier than everyone else, so when it was time for us to go we went to the door by ourselves while everyone else stayed in the dining room on the other side of the house. I don’t remember this, but I can only assume my mother had already said our goodbyes before we left the table. But for whatever reason she decided she wanted me to go back in there and say goodbye to everyone by myself.Well, I was an extremely quiet, shy kid, and this terrified me. So I shook my head no. She then suggested I just wave, but I still shook my head no. That’s when she got angry at me, marched me back home, yelled at me and gave me a good spanking as punishment. I stayed in my room crying alone for ages.It doesn’t sound like much, but this memory has stuck with me along with many other little things like it. She yelled at me and spanked me for being shy. In hindsight, she probably felt she was punishing me for not doing something she was telling me to do, but it’s not like I was being deliberately disobedient.Unfortunately, all the years of my childhood, that’s all my mother ever saw. She never tried to understand who I was or why I actually behaved the way I did. She never gave me room to explain my side of things. And even if I tried, she wouldn’t listen or accept that she overreacted because she was always right.As a result, I had a suppressed personality for the longest time, never actually felt loved by my mother, and also developed severe social anxiety. But things got better for me when I moved far, far away.
What is the difference between court and police?
For IndiaThe Police is to maintain law and order, prevent crime, investigate crimes when reported, ensure protection to the citizens and their property. In short they have to enforce the Law related to their duties.The Courts (Criminal Courts) are to hear the cases filed by the Police in the Courts and impart justice based on the evidence placed before it.Therefore the Police is called the Law enforcing Agency and the Courts as part of Judicial system.
Did Marcia Clark’s incompetence result in the loss of the O.J. Simpson trial?
Marcia Clark wasn’t incompetent.She was outclassed by the attorneys arrayed against her.Her boss decided to go after a wealthy man with a weak case and he put Marcia Clark in a no-win position. Surprise…she didn’t win.Let’s review:The prosecution lacked a confession, eyewitnesses, a solid motive and the murder weapon and clothing of the accused. While that might not be necessary for “OJ Brown” from tha’ hood, when a guy can drop $3–6 million to keep himself out of prison, you really need as much as you can get.The evidence that they did have was thin and they were going to show it to a jury selected specifically because they weren’t very bright. Neither the defense, nor the prosecution, would benefit from having intellectuals on the jury so they were going to pick the most average group of people that they could, with the prosecution skewing toward White women (The victim’s race and the domestic violence angle) and the defense skewed toward African-Americans (sympathy for the defendant). In any case, most people in the 1990s knew little about DNA. Even today, 20+ years later, many people still don’t.The police officers who testified came across as either liars or pricks or some degree of both. Their constant insistence on referring to the murders as “overkills (Is an “underkill” even possible?), the lies about Simpson not being a suspect (He shown to be handcuffed as soon as he arrived back from Chicago and went to the crime scene) and Mark Fuhrman’s entire testimony were tactical disasters. At best, the police officers made more people on the jury into fence sitters than there were before.The bloody glove - This is was such a damaging piece of evidence (for the prosecution) that you have to wonder why they thought that it was going to work in the first place. From Mark Fuhrman’s “finding it”, to Chris Darden’s suggestion that the defendant try it on, this item undermined so much of the prosecution’s case that you’d almost have thought that they were throwing it intentionally.The attorneys arrayed against Marcia Clark were a “Who’s Who” of American legal talent. If they had added Gerry Spence, Alan Dershowitz and Racehorse Haynes to the mix, they could have probably had the jury convict Ms. Clark herself of the murders. Clark was outclassed, Darden was outfoxed and the third prosecutor decided that he needed to leave before his heart gave out on himRich Man.Thin case.Weak jury.Strong defense.The only possible outcome was an acquittal.