How many idiots are required to imprison a genius?
Two idiots can imprison anyone for awhile. An idiot judge plus a liar can put anyone behind bars for a few days. Sometimes an equivocation of the law is required, but equivocation is the specialty of an idiot judge. Same is true for your money. The gruesome twosome can take your money as well.
Appeals are like the lottery. You have to be lucky to get one even after spending a lot of money. Getting your constitutional rights also requires a considerable expenditure. The poor can get special breaks and legal help. The rich can afford to pay whatever it takes and persist until they get a very expensive victory.
An expensive victory is still a loss for those of us without opulent wealth (over three million $). Sometimes two idiots can send a person to his death. Read a few books on death row. The scary thing is that it takes a lot of appeals and a ton of work to clear the falsely incarcerated. The death penalty consumes a lot of the available appeal process. If more states get the death penalty, the appeals courts would be over-whelmed and nobody would get a just appeal. As it is, the Supreme Court only hears one case out of every ten thousand submitted for consideration.
The solution is twofold. Firstly all have to get rid of the notion that their court system is the “best in the world”. Secondly, every person has to write congress and his newspaper at least once a year asking that false justice be eliminated.