Travesty of Justice~ Texas Case ~ Corrupt Investigator – Part 2 of (3)

A miscarriage of justice primarily is the conviction and punishment of a person for a crime they did not commit. The term travesty of justice is sometimes used for a gross, deliberate miscarriage of justice. Miscarriage of justice” is sometimes synonymous with wrongful conviction, referring to a conviction reached in an unfair or disputed trial. This case appears to be a Travesty of Justice followed by 46 wrongful convictions. A Corrupt investigator Tom Coleman arrives in a small Texas town and begins to carry out of survelliance of local drug dealers. In 1999 a police raid based on this evidence arrested 46 mostly black men. It transpires that Tom Colemans Surveillance was falsified and many of the undercover deals he maintained he carried out were clear fabrications and inventions. Only one white farmer Gary Gardner from this once segregated town took a stand against this injustice and helped bring this terrible miscarrriage to light through his own investigation. When Bob Herbert a columnist for the new York Times got involved he was shocked by not only the investigation but the Trials in Court where a wrongful conviction awaited each accused. Information about miscarriages of justice: A miscarriage of justice primarily is the conviction and punishment of a person for a crime they did not commit. The term travesty of justice is sometimes used for a gross, deliberate miscarriage of justice. Miscarriage of justice” is sometimes synonymous with wrongful conviction …