The need to change our judicial system

In a totally rational world the job of District Attorney as it is known in America would not exist. NOBODY should ever have any sort of a career or money incentive for sending people to prison, much less for executing people. The job of District Attorney in America seems to involve almost limitless power and very little resembling accountability and granted there are good people who hold the job, the attraction which the job has for psychopaths is simply too great.

DA is often the first rung in the ladder of political careers and some of those careers are paved with the blood and shattered lives of innocents. Cases which are well known and easy to research on the internet include those of Janet Reno and her witch hunts, Scott Harshbarger, Mike Nifong, Martha Cloakley who almost became a US senator from Massachusetts, Ronnie Earle who managed to convict Tom Delay of being a Republican, that lunatic sheriff of Wenatchee Wa. who almost succeeded in having Wenatchee disincorporated when it could no longer buy insurance, the prosecutors in that hideous David Camm case in Indiana, the “Kids for Cash” judge and the prosecutors involved in that disaster in Scranton Pa., Angela Corey, Marilyn Mosby, and the list goes on.

What is actually needed is to scrap the adversarial system of justice and the job of DA altogether and adopt the inquisitorial system used in France in which the common incentive of all governmental parties involved in a criminal case is a determination of facts. There is no law of physics or anything like that to prevent our doing that while keeping our jury system.