In a truly egalitarian society of which laws are created that are fair and equally applied, along with those laws being structured so as to demonstrate in principle that these laws are no respecter of persons, than such a society as that is clearly a just society. Unfortunately, while many societies profess that their Constitution or their government abides by those very things, or declaim that it does, or that their justice system behaves in that manner; the fact of the matter is, that one's social class and criminal justice as applicable to such are absolutely relevant to the crime and punishment so rendered, and that those of the upper class are clearly differentiated in how they are treated, by laws so instituted amongst men, then any other social class.
It all starts with the social conditioning of the classes, of which, social mores that are still in usage today, indicates that those that are from the upper class are often people not to be trifled with as well as people that need to be respected, for these are the very people of which the judicial system as well as the legislative representatives, have a significantly higher percentage of. In other words, the very people that write the laws and then render justice upon those laws are the people that make up the favored class, for those of that upper class, would not ever live or permit to have, a construct in which their voice was diminished by those that are not of the same class as they are. This signifies that the type of crimes that the upper class would have a tendency to participate in, such as financial fraud of all stripes, corporate malfeasance, tax evasion, and exploitation, are considered to be "white collar crimes" which are more typically dealt with in a manner in which incarceration to such is absolutely minimized, and financial penalties are utilized instead for punishment. Whereas, those of the "blue collar crime" type, are the typical crimes of the rabble, such as robbery, theft, rape, murder, and all those victimless crimes, which are typically treated rather harshly, with stiff sentencing of the miscreant being the routine result of having committing these crimes.
After all, those of the upper class don't rob anyone, at least not directly face-to-face; nor do they steal anything, at least not by the direct taking of an object from another; nor do they rape anyone, for they can buy whatsoever sex that they so want, deviant or not; nor do they murder anyone, for exploitation of another is far more satisfying; and finally they aren't ever accused of any victimless crimes, for all their illicit activities are done behind closed doors. On the other hand, the lower class, seldom has the opportunity to commit "white collar crimes" because they are not often in the position to do so; and even when they somehow evolve to be in that position, the justice system thereby finds a way to merge their particular "white collar crime" into something more suitable for one of lesser class, so that they duly suffer for their failure of adhering to their place, by becoming incarcerated with those others that have the audacity to take on the aura of that which they are not.
Who you are most definitely matters and the justice system and the legislative laws so enacted, reflect that those that make and adjudge those laws, do so in a manner that favors their own class, at the expressed expense of all those that are not of that class.