Time, present and historical injustice.

This is the article I found myself being most interested in. Through the article, the author is trying to disagree with the concept of the present and the past. He is throughout trying to differentiate the two times, hence representing time in a very linear structure.
However, in my opinion, there I always coexistence of both the present and the past and not one can exist without the other. Past takes birth from the present. So how can they be completely different altogether? They are highly interdependent on each other. The author also tries to contain the time in a concept of container.
This concept of time has a crucial impact in the circle of crime, punishment and injustice. Since no two events can occur twice, and no way under the same exact circumstances, who has the right to determine the crime and the punishment? In the article from the daily New Yorker and the movie 12 angry men, this point has been put across very clearly. Even though the event and the time lapse is the exact same, there are multiple pasts for multiple people within that. Thus for one crime, all the people involved had a different past, a different experience. While justifying a crime, how many points of view are taken into consideration? Even the minutest of the detail can be very crucial to a case and maybe the only possibility of saving someone innocent!
This is one of the very few aspects I would say where facts are of the utmost importance. Facts aren’t biased towards the defendant or the prosecutor or any other party if it exists. What happened happened, and there is no way to change that. It is to us to dig deep into the past and maybe solve a case mathematically and scientifically, rather than justifying a case based on someone’s opinion, someone’s background, or simply the body language.
Another point that struck me while reading this article, was that the past is not exactly the past for everyone. People fail to adapt the present and continue living in the past event which made a huge impact in their lives and they are unable to move on. Since they have a better and a clearer image of the ‘event’, are their recollections the most worthy and the most unbiased ones? I wonder how many innocent people have fallen prey to this concept of time and injustice, the very thought of it makes me cringe.