When the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of California death row prisoner Kevin Cooper, its meaning wasn’t lost on anyone who has any idea of the court’s history within this country.
For those who don’t know, the following truth must be said so that you can’t say you didn’t know. Especially as it pertains to the Cooper case.
In denying Cooper, the Court is saying that the police and district attorney can together or separately use false evidence to convict you, use false evidence to convict you, use falsified lab reports to convict you, present planted evidence to convict you, fail to disclose exculpatory evidence, withhold, destroy, lie, cheat and tamper with any and all evidence in order to convict you, and if you are convicted they will do nothing to help you.
This is all about “state’s rights” and not “your right.” The state has the “right” to try and convict you, and then murder you, as long as you had a fair trial. But it’s so clear that if the state does everything that is mentioned above in a person’s case, then that person did not have a fair trial!
All the factual things, or examples listed above, that the state does in order to convict a person did happen in the Cooper case!
What this also means is that despite what they say and claim, America’s criminal justice system isn’t the best in the world. Especially if you’re poor and/or a person of color. But we already know that, don’t we?