You wanna hear about rapacious DAs and the scandalmongering media, take a look at a famous case where the jury took the unprecedented measure of apologizing to the accused in this letter to the victim, who was the defendant in three widely publicized trials between November 1921 and April 1922 for the rape and manslaughter of an actress.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_ArbuckleThe third and final jury wrote:
"We feel that a great injustice has been done him. We feel also that it was only our plain duty to give him this exoneration, under the evidence, for there was not the slightest proof adduced to connect him in any way with the commission of a crime. He was manly throughout the case and told a straightforward story on the witness stand, which we all believed. The happening at the hotel was an unfortunate affair for which Arbuckle, so the evidence shows, was in no way responsible. We wish him success and hope that the American people will take the judgment of fourteen men and woman who have sat listening for thirty-one days to evidence, that Roscoe Arbuckle is entirely innocent and free from all blame."
Not that it did him much good. Read the last parts of the long article in Wikipedia to see exactly how the false accusations, the professional (false) antagonism, and the media, destroyed a prominent man's reputation and livelihood.
Terry, 230RN