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That's not entirely true. You can be found factually innocent, and still be unable to escape prison—due to the utterly Kafkaesque nature of the legal system. H
by perihelions 2y ago
That's not entirely true. You can be found factually innocent, and still be unable to escape prison—due to the utterly Kafkaesque nature of the legal system.
Here's a case I read about over a decade ago, and never forgot:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2012-aug-21-la-me-innocent-20120821-story.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2012-aug-21-la-me-in... ("Man behind bars 2 years after judge orders release" (2012))
- "But two years after he was supposed to be released, Larsen remains behind bars while the California attorney general appeals the decision. The state’s main argument: He did not file his legal paperwork seeking release on time."
- tetromino_ 2y agoThe next paragraph deserves to be quoted also: > California Atty. Gen.Kamala D. Harris, whose office maintains that evidence still points to Larsen’s guilt, accuses him and his attorneys of filing a petition seeking his release more than six years after he was legally required to do so. Prosecutors question whether the judges had the authority to hear Larsen’s petition for release.
- Schiendelman 2y agoBut sometimes it turns out to be “we found a friendly judge much later who was willing to break the law for us”. We don’t know.