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I get as frustrated as anyone else at the often glacial pace of justice. I've been told that it's all in a good cause, that slow means careful and the best chance at just outcomes.
While I mostly believe this, my doubts stem from the fact that "justice" seems to be awfully stern and quick when the accused is poor, or a minority, and seems to only really becomes slow and careful when the rich, and especially the rich white, are accused. And the rich get to live in "house arrest" while the system cautiously, and protractedly, protects their rights. I have a difficult time reconciling that.
PS, I know you're talking about Crowder, not the public. It just got me thinking.
Yep. It’s a pretty reasonable system, with both sides doing their aggressive best to win and justice as the result, all the way up until the prosecution gets basically unlimited resources and the defendant whether guilty or innocent gets a public defender who read their case and 4 others on the bus on the way to the courthouse. At that point it becomes pretty much not reasonable any more.