Mean Justice

"I remember the book as a witch hunt at a time when there was national hysteria, especially here in California, about rings of pedophiles doing ungodly things to children. Eddie Humes is a great writer, just a terrific journalist. He wrote this book about this born-again-Christian District Attorney out in the hinterlands of California, who just ran amock, indicting and getting convictions on scores and scores of people who were totally innocent and did nothing. You see how much power District Attorneys have in the criminal justice system, mostly used not in an honourable way, but to rack up convictions so they’ll get re-elected. “Crime was so bad in the 80s and early 90s in New York that people really were fearful.”"