A few observations: 1) This man, by all accounts, is free only because he has an extraordinary talent. It's not that his case for innocence was stronger than a

A few observations: 1) This man, by all accounts, is free only because he has an extraordinary talent. It's not that his case for innocence was stronger than any specific other inmate's. It's that his talent attracted the attention of people that could work for his release. How many people without artistic talent are nonetheless languishing unjustly in prison? 2) Bureaucracies where the individual cogs (here the prosecutors) have no skin in the game, will always tend towards inhumane outcomes. They don't even need to hold the power of life and death over citizens for this to be the case. Prosecutors face no consequences for wrongly incarcerating people, so naturally, they tend to be overly aggressive in prosecutions. When designing government agencies in the future, citizens should first figure out how to make sure the bureaucrats have skin in the game before they empower them. Once the bureaucrats are given power, they become petty tyrants. It's just human nature.