Millenial Justice Poem by Bill Upton

The trial was over without a verdict
As is the norm nowadays.
Criminals walk out of courtrooms
Into Uber getaways.
Juries go home weary,
Knowing they did nothing wrong-or right,
Falling for the 'abused as a child' defense
Just as the prior one had fallen for the
'No father growing up ' excuse.
Bad behavior walks arrogantly out of courtrooms
With the faux swagger of justice,
Realizing that 'beyond the shadow of a doubt'
Gets closer to unprovable with each passing year.
Loopholes and 'technically' possible scenarios
Allow crimes to go unpunished.
Victims' families cry themselves to sleep at night
While judges neatly remove their robes each day,
Hang them on the neutral scales of justice hooks,
And head off to happy hour to clear their consciences.
The current panacea of justice having been served
Because of the recent plague of politically correctness
Has polluted our court system beyond repair.
Innocence and insanity have become synonymous.