The Thin Blue Line

Firstly, I have classes starting from 11:00-3:50 non-stop every Tuesday and Thursday. That is an extremely long time for someone to sit in a chair and listen (or in my case it is). After grabbing a snack during my ten minute interval before my last class, I head upstairs to the Greer Garson theatre. My class, the history of documentary film, is watching the documentary "The Thin Blue Line" today. To sum up the film, a 16 year old boy pretty much lies and puts an innocent man to jail for killing a police officer. Everyone thought that the innocent man was lying; they had proof to show for it. But he wasn't and because of the film being released, the man was let out of jail. This made me wonder. How does any jury ever REALLY know that someone is lying or telling the truth? I mean, most criminals deny til they die, but this man really wasn't lying when he said he was innocent. I started to think how many other innocent people were in jail in place of all the guilty crazy lot that escaped. Far too many i presume. One of the lawyers even gave up his job after this case because he knew that the man was innocent but no one would believe him. Everyone else already had an agenda and wanted to have a suspect put behind bars and stay there. Did I mention that this crime happened in Dallas? Yea, scary thought. This film just kind of proved that the justice system is corrupt in places and an innocent man can and will go to jail. Or a guilty man can roam free? O.J. anybody? The glove didn't fit in this case but they wanted it to so they squeezed it on.