Anyone who thinks the American judicial system is bloated, biased, corrupt or otherwise dysfunctional might want to gain a little perspective and consider the case of a dead whistleblower scheduled to go on trial March 11 in Moscow.
Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer, was jailed in 2008 after he accused state officials of stealing $225 million. The 37-year-old was alleged to have died of heart failure. The wounds on his corpse suggest he was beaten to death.
Now Magnitsky is scheduled for a posthumous trial.
Not that any of this burnishes the American justicial system, but hell, as far as I know, not even Texas has put a dead man on trial.
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