justice or injustice?

the scottsboro boys meeting with their lawyer

Okay, so everyone knows the classic image of that blindfolded woman holding a balanced scale?  That is supposed to symbolize justice and how it is blind, and impartial, or at least that's how its supposed to be.  The reality of the situation is that one side of the scale has been loaded with things like money, racism, and biased juries.  A classic example of this is the scottsboro trial.  The supposed case of how nine black boys raped two white girls on a train in 1927.  Now, the trial was held in alabama, and considering the time frame, the boys were instantly found guilty, despite the fact that the evidence was shoddy at best, the two girls were prostitutes, and one of the boys was only 9 years old!  Take a look at the article.

Okay, so terrible tragedy, but no good unless it can be connected to something right?  So for another corrupt court case, we're going to take a look at an old american classic, Arthur Miller's The Crucible.  This play is an account of the Salem Witch trials.  What made it corrupt, was the fact that anyone who was accused of being a witch was automatically assumed guilty, because if they said that they were not a witch, then they would be accused of trying to put a spell on the judges!  Not to mention the fact that the group of girls under Abigail Williams had a habit of leading her followers into wild delusions to try and show how the witches were "corrupting them"