S1EP18 Minisode Tulia 35 (Texas) and Nash (Missouri)

The Injustice Files

On this episode of The Injustice Files we look into two cases with an odd common theme. It's not just the absurdity of our first case of 35 people in a small Texas town, largely comprised of 5000 African American folk arrested for dealing powder cocaine, all arrested on the same day. Nor is it the case of Don Nash, who was arrested 26 years after his ex-girlfriend's murder in 1982 in Missouri.

In both cases, eventually, with the absurdity of the evidence and conclusion-jumping by detectives, both defense and prosecutors worked together to obtain people's release from prison and criminal charges.

Given our adversarial-based system of justice, it is rare for these competing forces to come together seeking justice. As noted in our introduction segment, this adversarial system most often creates an atmosphere on both sides of winning no matter the cost. This is probably in-part influenced by a capitalist culture in which winning it the only good outcome. And as with any culture based on zero-sum, one has to lose for another to win. We wind up cheated of justice as seeking justice in this setting in our adversarial, competition-based, zero-sum culture more often than not makes finding truth and justice a casualty of the system.