First, «Three Strangers» (1946) tells the cynical tale of a trio
bonded by fate and a winning lottery ticket: Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Geraldine Fitzgerald.
So, whether connected to us
by blood as family or
by fate like friends and pets, we share a connection, a
bond, with them for life.
The American criminal justice system is far from being sufficiently enlightened, starting
by too many presumed - innocent people caged without
bond pending sentencing, moving to Virginia's crabbed criminal discovery system, continuing to Virginia's system that allows prosecutors to scare defendants to plead guilty
by their refusal to waive a jury that in many instances and locations can mean more racist jurors than judges on top of the jurors often being more wild cards than judges for sentencing, continuing to the many judges who choose judicial efficiency over a fair trial, continuing to the brutal capital punishment system, cntinuing to excessive mandatory minimum and guideline sentencing, and continuing to the slew of innocent convicted people (many of whom plead gulilty rather than risking a worse
fate), and continuing to frequently excessive sentences and excessive probation violation sentences.