The Justice System: The Lindsay Zimmerman Case

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Also, about money too if Lindsay was never famous we all the things she did with drugs and drinking driving she would served some years in prison. The justice system is so unfair. Why do we have laws if only certain people have to live by them and some people can buy their way out of jail? The media is no help with celebrities they get more attention and sometimes get funded for their case. In Zimmerman case actually the media was good for him. By his case being so talked about and being public he actually had people donate money to him to help cover his trial.

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