If the law was always right, Then what makes them convict real innocent people?

Question

Thank you for your views..^^

Answer 1

cause the law isnt always rite n life is truly unfair

Answer 2

Laws are framed by corrupt society,dont expect justice from them.

Answer 3

Law and Justice are two separate things.It's like a big game played at the expense of sometimes the victim or the alleged perpetrator (if accused of a crime he/she didn't committ). That's why we often see people that should be thrown in prison and let them rotten there go free on a stupid technicality,and innocent people go to prison  for long periods of time for having no luck.

Answer 4

The law is presumed right until it is deemed otherwise by a higher court of law, if challenged.  The law is merely a tool we use to set the standards for our society's behavior, both acceptable and unacceptable.  Innocent people get convicted because they don't present themselves properly to the courts.  They show up with attitudes and anger, and instead of helping the investigators, they hinder them.  Too often people who are innocent try to represent themselves, and they don't get the best advice possible from an attorney, as there is none present to assist them.  Attorneys are expensive, but the alternative is more costly.  Also, too many innocent people settle for lesser fines or punishments, rather than fight for their innocence in courts of law.  The penitentiaries are full of innocent people.  Just ask them all.  Nobody inside is guilty.  They were all framed.  At least, that's what they all tell you.

Answer 5

The laws are written in black and white but too many times cases fall in the grey areas and that's where the problems develop.

Answer 6

People will say that the law is corrupt. This is true if man established the law. However, there is the perfect law: The Ten Commandments. Everyone has broken this law. It is called sin. From that point on, no one is innocent. Even man has broken their own rules because there is no one that is perfect except for Jesus, the Son of God.

Answer 7

"You can not legislate morality"

who said that?

Answer 8

The law is never right 100% and that is why in some countries the culprits do take advantage of the benefits of doubt due to some of legal discrepancies and/or loop holes in the law.  Why is it so because the law is man-made and particularly it is associated  with the influence of the big shots for their protection under the specific given circumstances.  Otherwise, why would always big shots possibly escape and poor and/or weaker would become an escape goat.  Nevertheless, it is supposed to be right to a greater extent.

Now as far as the conviction of innocent(s) is concerned, it is mostly because of the blindness of the law and/or justice, or both, because they blindly go by the evidences and/or witnesses.  This sort of malfunctions in the judiciaries are regrettably known to be exercised in most of the third world countries because of proving the supermacy of the richer/big shots over the poor.  Otherwise they would certainly lose importance (the VIP culture is referred to) in the society.  Therefore, such practices are imperatively considered to be quite vital for their co-existence in consonance with their desirous pomp and show sort of life style.  Therefore, it has also been noticed that the biggest crimes (murder and billions of loans etc.) are somehow indemnified by the respective government representative(s) either in consonance with the prevailing or modified law(s) just because of the dire need of their support to some in the government.  Whreas, on the contrary, there is no such legal concessional approach for the poor even for the pettiest crime and/or the pettiest loan.  This sort of ill-feelings in the society consequently provoke the victimised poor to opt to violent terrorism and other major crimes.

I wish that the law is truly implemented by the true and independent justice indiscriminately for development of a peaceful society, where most of its members would then certainly live a very peaceful and prosperous life.

Answer 9

Dear Friend,

as you said the LAWS are always right.They are enacted or passed in the arliament or the Political Houses so authorised and after that they become LAWS.they are formed after much debate and many intelligent minds sitting together.So you can not blame the LAW.

But in a court of LAW , what the Lawyer should do (The lawyer or attorney of the convicted) to provide sifficient and substantial proof to proove the innocence of the convicted.

If the Lawyer fails , or the lawyer of the other party or opposite party or Public Presecutor is capable of producing the evedence in support of the guilt alleged to have been committed , then automatically , the Court will have to rule against the conviced.

Courts of law want proof, previous such trails and how they were handled etc.

So it is the interpretaion of the Law also some times very impoertant.

But, the Slogan in the Court of Law is ,''Let not one innocent be punished ,though hundreds of guilty are released for lack of proof''

So , fried , we have Laws enough.

we should also have intelligent and committed attornies or Lawyers.

Then the Innocents ,I believe will never be punished.

Answer 10

In the first place the laws are not always right, but even if they were in theory, innocent people have been convicted on the basis of false evidents or errors. Thus capital punishment is a prime example of the above and should be abolished, because it cannot be taken back in case of the wrongly convicted.

Answer 11

the law isn't always right... neither is the jury that decides the conviction. Law is just a collection of peoples beliefs, and people are often wrong.

Answer 12

In fact, laws are not always morally or ethically right.  Not long ago the US had racial segregation laws.  South Africa had Apartheid.  These are moral extremes; but even today, in the most "civilized" places, there are laws against things that are, well, just none of the government's business, and, therefore, are ethically wrong.

Conviction, on the other hand, is a determination of guilt by either a judge or a jury, both of which are just people, and people make mistakes.