OK, in my fantasy world, material witnesses are at most put in protective custody, in a nice hotel or safe house. They're not arrested like criminals, and thrown in jail.
So why don't they do that?
So why don't they do that?
Their reasoning: He was a flight risk. But he wasn't. They had never attempted to contact him to ask him to testify. And he had cooperated with them in the past. They just picked him up, and threw him in jail.
More than a year later, they had the trial. He was never called to the stand.
So all this pain because they wanted him to testify, and he was never called to testify.
He sued. His case went to the Supreme Court eventually. Unfortunately, he lost the case. But he did win some minor cases and got damages in the six figures.
Not enough in my opinion...
[1] http://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
Someone has enough power to use "the system" to destroy my life because I saw something, of course I'll testify that sure I was there but I was scared so I didn't get a good look. I have a spouse and kids and not enough life insurance.
Its pretty funny the discussion here in general is not about casual corruption which is almost certainly the problem but instead is wandering into weird ranting about how bad it is or surely its all Trumps fault...