Justice for murdered transsexual

**Stavros** · 12-08-2013

From what I have read of prisoners on death row appealing against their sentence, the quality of legal counsel at the 'bargain basement' level of justice in the USA is abysmal. Time and again the conduct of counsel seems inexplicable in something as important as a murder trial, and particularly so in those states which still retain the death penalty. We have had outrageous miscarriages of justice in the UK in spite of the assumption that our legal system offers high quality representation in court. Most often it turns on the evidence presented in court, and the means whereby crucial elements are withheld, as appears to have happened in this case. In the UK it has often been the police not disclosing all of their evidence in order to secure a conviction, and/or the prosecution not showing everything to the defence. For justice to be done, it must be seen to be done. I don't know how justice can be done if the victim is defamed in court and is literally powerless to respond.