“The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.”
–John Philpot Curran, Irish statesman, 1790
What It’s Really Like Inside the Criminal Justice System
Picture this: you're an illiterate French sailor pulled from your wedding banquet by royal gendarmes into the office of a deputy crown prosecutor. It's not a public hearing. You have no written complaint formalizing the charges against you. You have no lawyer. You...
