The Suburban Ecstasies has a really great post entitled: Twenty Incontrovertible Truths About the American Criminal Justice System, From Someone Who Knows and Has No Interest in Lying to You About It.
You should read it even if you are not a law student or lawyer. You should read it because it’s chock full of things you should know and understand as an American (or know and understand about America for my worldly readers).
[Via ambivalent imbroglio]