Man walks from prison 18 years later, DNA sets him free...Can you imagine!!??

[Doug]

Wow, how very naive. Large sample sizes means plenty of cases where someone has wrongly been convicted. You'd be more unlucky to get convicted for kiddy rape or something.

They admit to it because of pressure or to get a lesser sentence.

Strong evidence to put someone away? Obviously not all facts are always known, and not all the known facts are always presented in court. Sometimes even the facts aren't enough. Strong evidence can still be very incomplete evidence. The evidence itself may not be any good, eg a lying witness, mistaken identity, coincidence etc.

Doug, I'd imagine that guilty people getting set free is a much smaller % than people who are wrongly convicted. Is convicting 10 murders worth 1 innocent man in prison? Is setting free one guilty man worth setting free 10 innocent men?

Mr J: Hi, I remember you from SSB. I disagree about guilty people being set free being less than wrongly convicted. In USA many clearly guilty are set free due to minor proceedural errors ( Cop forgot to read rights, etc.).

No convicting 10 isn't worth it if one is wrongly jailed, that's way too high an error rate, esp. if you are that one. I don't get the last sentence.

 

[Doug]

I can't even comprehend the rage I would feel if this were me. If I hadn't killed anyone before, I sure as hell would the minute they let me out.

Use up the jail credit ?

 

[quantumleap]

Well, well, well. Look what I just read-

D.A. in charge of Duke lacrosse case re-elected

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/more/05/02/duke.lacrosse.nifong.ap/index.html?cnn=yes

 

[Insiders]

Incredibly, he will not be compensated for the wrongful conviction!

Yeah thats the sad thing about some states, as if there was ever Anyone needed to be compensated i would say this guy is at the Top of the list!!

 

[tkf18ny]

If I was wrongly convicted of murder I'd hope it was a crime where I could use double jeapody. I would feel great joy in choking the life out of someone who set me up for their murder. I'd do it publicly of course, although I'd probally get busted for disturbing the peace or something.

so youre gonna kill a dead guy?

 

[Doug]

:lolBIG:

 

[Doug]

so youre gonna kill a dead guy?

Maybe it's a real bad rap. Sent to jail for murder, and the victim is still alive ?

 

[ElIguana]

If the dude plays his cards right or hires an agent he could probably parlay this into a book and/or movie deal. Shawshank II!