The Sideshow on justice and finality:
The thing that worries me the most is this idea prosecutors seem to have lately that “finality” is a more important value than the guilt or innocence of the accused. To what kind of mind is that a meaningful argument? Justice is irrelevant; they just want to be able to say, “We won, tough.”
Again, we see members of the legal system who seem to believe that this “justice” thing is just a game, like it’s a football match or something. Yeah, maybe the refs made a bad call, or your manager didn’t do all that well by the players, but hey, too bad! It doesn’t matter if the real rapist is running around free, it doesn’t matter if an innocent man goes to jail, it just matters that, “Our team won!” As if the accused – and society – doesn’t have a somewhat more significant interest in the outcome.