10. KINGDOM OF LIARS - 2016 to 2019 The strangest thing is how no lawyers in the room, judge prosecution or defense, feel any attachment to the truth, and no shame. You can go in a web politics forum where people who love and hate President Trump argue all day, and wish death on each other. But a person who Loves President Trump will not want to be caught lying by someone who hates President Trump. And each side will want to argue that his passionate political position, his wish for the literal suffering and death of his adversary, is based on the truth. But lawyers in a courtroom will do whatever they can get away with, with no shame or sanction from their peers for lying. At Mandi's trial, in his closing argument, prosecutor Stone told the jury the gun was Mandi's gun. All the lawyers in the room know that is almost certainly not true. An anonymous person in a web forum would be ashamed to make an assertion that all his peers and adversaries know is almost certainly not true. But the prosecutor in a criminal trial does not seem to be at all worried that the judge or defense lawyers will think he is a lying scumbag. And the judge does not seem to care if the outcome is just or even based in truth. She sees herself as a legal secretary. It probably got to a point in the 60's or 70's where it was no longer even possible to try to bring out the truth at trial, because of case law. Rather than telling the truth, you were forced to tell whatever story you could come up with, to fit with whatever evidence you were allowed to present. And from that point it is just a sport of liars. And of jailhouse informants and expert witnesses. And of people manufacturing whatever kind of evidence the rules don’t forbid, to have any hope to get anything done. Old-fashioned lying is the one kind of evidence that higher courts, rules of evidence, and case law, can't prevent you from introducing, How is a higher court going to determine if you lied? No chance. Witness Neisha Cintron can go up there and straight lie "I didn't meet Mandi until the end of the night. Mulrenin never took employees home with him." Doesn't matter. Jackson Athaide said "911 call came in at 6:30." Prosecutor Stone says "Just because Mandi told jailhouse witness Madara there was a drug named G doesn't mean it's true." Denise Smith said she ducked a gunshot right before she reported a suicide to 911. Even Judge Recksiedler was fooled about when the murder victim actually died, and thought he was alive in the hospital for two days. Barbara Mellinger completely invented, straight-up made it up right in front of Scott's jury "This is the job application that Mandi gave me." They don't even pretend that the witnesses aren't making it up. Only Mellinger didn't make it up. She lied about not knowing why there were two applications. When a crime-scene technician lies on the stand, I get excited. So I pointed out Smolarek’s new lie about the gloves to Mandi's lawyer Bark. He said "Yeah, but it doesn't matter because none of it's Mandi's DNA." To me it matters, because the whole system is a car with marshmallow wheels. But lawyers are like female veterinarians after 10 years tossing family dogs in the freezer all day. It doesn't bother them that it is not what people hope for. The lawyers in the courtroom, the judge, the prosecution, the defense, are part of the same professional organization, The Bar. They are not going to try to police or harass their peers for dishonesty. As a practical matter, there is no ultimate arbiter to determine what the truthfulness of any statement is. Are they going to have a separate trial for every fact every lawyer supposedly lied about? No they are not, and so there is no benefit to go after your peers. All they have to do is deny lying and say you are the one lying, and it would dead-end there. As a practical matter, standing up for the truth would be hopeless endeavor, you would just make enemies. Prosecutors have almost unlimited power to produce whatever evidence they want. The police go and tell witnesses "This evil guy shot this nice guy, he is evil, and it demands justice. Do you want to help us get justice by making a statement about what you saw?" Yes, I saw it. I saw this evil guy shoot this nice guy. It really is that easy to manufacture evidence. They don’t even need to tell jailhouse witnesses you will get life in prison unless you say the defendant confessed to the exact thing he is accused of. Or, if the witness doesn't catch on and say the story the cop wants told, the cop just doesn't write his name down. The defense attorney six months later, has no chance of finding that witness. That’s not a rogue cop. That is state attorney Phil Archer's LEO of the year Ben Sprague. He hid the statements from Lofts witnesses who didn't say what he wanted, until the defense was lucky to find out about some of them a year and a half later on June 20, 2018. Sprague ignored the witnesses at Dollhouse who said they saw Love. Sprague never asked that dog walker what IV-52