Two cases, Gary Rush and Mercedes Cordoba.
Rush burglars and beats old heroes. Cordoba brought in the drug.
The setting of the two cases itself is already very attractive, but what is even better is the penetration of legal principles behind it and the revealing of reality.
Because of Gary's long history and many court battles (more criminals but less sentences), the police hate him so much. So in this case, the police superfluous, in order to make Gary more likely to be convicted and get a harsher sentence, they played with the evidence (video and doorknob fingerprints). But the conspiracy was seen through by the heroine, and Gary was acquitted. The look of despair in the old man's eyes as he left the courtroom was distressing, and the medal Martha received after the incident strongly implied that Gary was the criminal.
Here is the problem. Many people think that lawyers are people who speak for bad people. They do everything they can to distort the facts for the sake of money and for the benefit of the client. But in the common law system, the burden of proof in criminal law cases is on the prosecution. The defense theory does not need to prove anything, only that the prosecution's evidence is wrong. That is to say, when the prosecution fails to produce or cannot produce sufficient valid evidence to prove the guilt of the accused, the accused is innocent no matter how the case appears. This is what Martha refers to as the 'presumption of innocence'. Everyone is equal before the law. The law does not care whether you are a good person or a bad person, rich or poor, old or young, poor or not. There are no personal values in court, and only evidence is used to speak. Meanwhile, the defendant remains innocent, like everyone else, until he is found guilty by a jury.
'Procedural fairness' is another important concept. Even if a repeat offender like Gary is charged with a crime, he still has the right to a hearing, and he still has the right to have a legal expert defend him and test the charges for him. The veracity of his evidence, not the cowboy values of the police to decide whether he is guilty or how many years to sentence. In this process, the police are the ones who influence justice.
In Cordoba's case, the screenwriter made a great satire on this hypocritical society. The ordeal that Cordoba has endured in her life has led her to believe that being in jail is a better option. She was forced to bring drugs into the country, but when the police and customs severely investigated the drug traffickers, Clive Reader, who was defending the suspect, quietly attracted fans. It was these hypocrites' demand for drugs that caused victims like Cordoba to not show up.
Great show, looking forward to the next story.
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