Exonerations: The Shame of Injustice in Texas

What every exoneration in Texas (and across America) truly reveals is just how broken the entire criminal court system is.

When it comes to Texas, the people of Dallas County should be adorned in sackcloth and ashes every day as a sign of deep mourning for the ongoing travesties they have allowed to happen in the name of ("Texas-styled") justice. Travesties that have resulted in Dallas County, gaining the dubious distinction as the wrongful conviction assembly line of American courts. All Texans, in fact, ought to grieve for all those known (and unknown) they have permitted to be convicted and imprisoned by a system that, decades ago, has proven to be hopelessly racist, flawed, and even corrupt in it its prosecution policies, the application of the state's laws, the guarantees of the United Stated Constitution, and the punishments rendered in most cases.

Recent revelations have left no room for anyone to doubt that there are numerous individuals whom the system failed. In failing them, the system has also failed each one of us who has ever believed in it. I stopped believing on April 22, 2008 inside a Dallas, TX courtroom--
( See: www.AmericasWrongfullyConvicted.com/Lakeith_Amirsharif.htm ).

Now I am certain some will argue that the atrocious miscarriages of justice occurring here in Texas, and elsewhere in America, were simply mistakes, mere anomalies that are inevitable with an overburdened criminal court structure.

However, it is readily apparent that the number of exonerations in Texas, particularly Dallas, TX, are such, that these wrongful convictions and the years of life stolen through unjust imprisonment are not the aberrations, but instead are the product of an ingrained systemic methodology designed with an emphasis that has nothing, or little to do, with seeking the truth, justice, and/or fairness.

The exonerations in Texas showcases a pattern of egregious acts that must CEASE.