My-America: A Memoir On Justice And Race In The U.S. Federal Legal System (ePub)

system system is generally not interested in winnowing truth from falsehood in the cases brought against defendants, this system wants convictions only, and is not interested in the other side of justice, the side which subjects the government's case to the rigorous scrutiny of habeas, which the U.S. Supreme Court has called a court's highest duty under law under our constitutional system. The few chapters on the author's website deal mostly with his family and educational background, but the remaining parts of the memoir addresses the issues of procedural and racial injustice carried against our nation's citizens when they find themselves entangled in the current system.. Our legal system was designed as a two-way street, not a one-way street; we In this nation are subject to the penalties of the law when accused of breaking them, but we are also subject to relief from those penalties when our constitutional rights are violated during the criminal process. Habeas lies at the center of that critical guarantee, and was instituted by our wise Founding Fathers as an essential thread in the very fabric of our legal system. Habeas was put in place as a necessary counterbalance to the human error, bias, evil design, and negligence that all humans are prone to. The Founding Fathers knew of the dangers of unchecked power, and designed habeas to even and balance our legal playing field. The power we as a society currently vest in our federal prosecutors and judges has far exceeded the reasonable bounds the system was designed for. The author demonstrates in a painstaking manner in the memoir how the prosecutors and judge in his case tried at every turn to avoid his habeas claims, acting in square violation of their own law, and soiling the judicial soul of the legal system we ask others around the world to practice with us. If we could trust federal prosecutors, agents, and judges, the Founding Fathers wouldn't have felt the need to give us habeas. When confronted with the author's habeas claims, the government and the judge acted to brazenly obfuscate and avoid adjudication of those claims, knowing the claims had laid bare the illegality and corrupt nature of the case against him . The author encountered untold men in the system subjected to these and other types of legal charades, and realized it is all too common, thus he decided to write this memoir not only for himself, but for the many whose stories would never be told. Read a first hand and in-depth account of what our federal legal system has come to represent far too often for our nation's citizens.