[georgeecollins]

My Mom was a judge in Oakland. Because I was a little kid, sometimes I would just have to stay in the courtroom or my Mom's chambers. It was shocking to me how different the criminal justice system was than what I saw on TV, in which it was always always roughly fair. My mother above all stressed that it was a deeply unfair system and did what she could. I think a lot of people think the police, courts and lawyers work the way they do on TV.