[veemjeem]

Yeah, based on the email content from the prosecutors, it looks like they were in on it too. How does a 50lbs package of marijuana magically become 80lbs as requested by the prosecutor? It sounds like the entire system is corrupt.

[malandrew]

Prosecutors are the ones I want most to see investigated here. I would not be surprised is this is a real life example of Stanley Milgram's 1963 obedience to authority experiments.

From Wikipedia:

    If at any time the subject indicated his desire to halt the experiment, 
    he was given a succession of verbal prods by the experimenter, in this 
    order:[1]

        1) Please continue.
        2) The experiment requires that you continue.
        3) It is absolutely essential that you continue.
        4) You have no other choice, you must go on.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were emails from prosecutors that essentially parroted these instructions in a more indirect form.

"Please examine the evidence again."

"Finding justice requires that you examine the evidence again"

"It is absolutely essential that you examine the evidence again"

"You have no other choice, you must examine the evidence again"