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Easy to solve with accountability and its friend the chilling effect. Prosecutors should serve whatever wrongful time they put someone in jail for. I bet we wou
by dclowd9901 10y ago
Easy to solve with accountability and its friend the chilling effect. Prosecutors should serve whatever wrongful time they put someone in jail for. I bet we would see wrongful convictions drop to zero.
- mveety 10y agoBut then prosecutors would be much less willing to take acceptable risk when called for because the punishments are so draconian. That being said, letting a dangerous criminal free is much better than having a single innocent incarcerated.
- pmarreck 10y agoThere is a concept I only just learned about yesterday which covers this idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_formulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_formulation
- dclowd9901 10y agoI know. I addressed the chilling effect as a net positive. Given the overwhelming power the state has in the trial process, it's the only check I find appropriately/equally as potent.