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If you are truly innocent then you have nothing to fear from a judicial system

Disagree

I strongly disagree with this argument. The judicial system is far from perfect. It has many flaws and you never know what could happen. In many cases in history, innocent people were sentenced to death but years after were proven to have been innocent. In an ideal world, the rule of law should protect everyone and the principle that everyone is innocent until proven guilty should be enough guarantee that someone who is innocent would not be unfairly treated. But there have been many examples of miscarriage of justice in democracies, let alone in countries which are dictatorships. The judicial system is run by human beings, they make mistakes. They may even be tempted to try and pin a crime on someone in order to satisfy public opinion or even to get a promotion. One example of this was the Scots borough trial when the court chose to believe lies by two white women rather than the testimony of nine black men who were accused of rape. They were found guilty, even though they were innocent and there was evidence to prove their innocence. Other examples were the trials in Britain of innocent Irish people who were framed by police and jailed for life as IRA terrorists. Later it was found the mistakes had been made and they were released.

If the court system fails society, then society should take the law into its own hands.

Agree

As I have mentioned before, the court system has many flaws. In the same way as innocent people are put in jail, guilty people are set free. If a serial killer is found innocent due to lack of evidence, society must do what is necessary in order to protect itself. Many court decisions offend the sense of justice of ordinary people. Well trained lawyers do not care if their client is guilty or innocent, all they want to do is to make sure he or she is found innocent and they will use every trick in the book to achieve this. Police men and other responsible for bringing people to trial may be careless or make mistakes and as a result someone that everyone knows is guilty is released on a technicality, and because of the law that says that no-one can stand trial for the same crime twice, there is no way to bring him to justice. Although it is a film, 24 shows that society cannot fight terrorists unless it uses their methods. Agents have to break the laws so as to find out valuable information and prevent attacks. This means violating the judicial system but for the right reasons. Unfortunately the end justifies the means.