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In many places, there is no legal obligation for police to collect evidence in your favor, even if they know it exists.
Also, and this is very difficult to accept for a lot of people, but the truth doesn't really matter in many cases like this. It's always malicious prosecution because like all of our politicians, the justice system is made up of people who are backed by various financial and political interests. The system makes up its mind for what it is going to determine the truth to be as well as the legal process necessary to get the pre-determined end result. The police, DA, Judges, etc, all work together every day.
You basically have no rights and if you ever call the powers that be out for violating them, they will just throw various forms of immunity back at you... From qualified immunity to sovereign immunity, 11th amendment protections and so on.
The shit you see on TV is just copaganda.
I still remember the rage I felt when I first realized that the United States justice system is fundamentally adversarial. Prosecuting attorneys don't want to find the truth of the matter. The build the strongest case possible and it's on the defendant to prove they're wrong. Attorneys are supposed to take into account all available evidence, but have no obligation to seek additional information that could exonerate the defendant, even if it's clear such information exists.
It's absolutely fucked.
When I was in jail a cop walked up and down the run loudly anouncing he could treat us however he wanted and it would be justified because "we are guilty until proven innocent". Fucking coward just paled and quickened his pace when we all laughed at him. My lawyer laughed in my face when I honestly answered her questions about my religious views and I was never given even a public defender only an assistant public defender who didn't even bring up I did not match the physical description (yes I did it but wrong ethnicity dramatically wrong height, 10 years off age and found at location hours later), or manage to get the body cam footage of the cops saying "idk we'll figure something out" when I was detained and I asked what I was charged with. Id doesn't matter what the rules are on paper if no one is expected to follow them. And the rules they make sure to follow are fucked. If you are suicidal then you are stripped naked, given a apron like the lead ones at the dentist and locked in solitary with a glass wall and no blankets or books or mattress for the first 24 hours. I kept myself blindfolded trying to induce hallucinations. There is no justice here nor will there ever be.
if they hired anyone with actual morals/or actual intelligence to leo, there would be no criminal cases to be heard therby doesnt feed the prison industrial complex, and give kickback to judges and politicians. its just another scheme to funnel taxpayer money back to judges, DAs, politicians, the police gang union being the mediator.
thats why most of the people hired or conservatives, they need people to not ask questions,.