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by RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
Similar stories:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2067768 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2067768
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2067884 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2067884
Miscarriages of justice happen. The real crime is that there seems to be no follow-up, no detailed reports, no proposals for making sure the same mistakes don't happen again.
That's the tragedy beyond the individual cases. It will happen again, in exactly the same way, for exactly the same reasons.
- ugh 16y agoWhat gets me about this case is that there was little interest in looking at new evidence as it became available, even active attempts from the prosecution to stop the new evidence from being used. It wouldn’t even be hard for politicians to frame the question of whether DNA evidence should be tested as often as possible in harsh law and order terms: For every innocent person in prison, the real perpetrator is running around free. We want to be damn sure that we locked up the right people!