I've stated many times there are plenty of crooked cops out there. I'm also of the opinion that they should not only be fired, but any sentence they receive should be doubled.
I'm sure there are many innocent people in jail that were put there by false confessions. I'm sure you've seen some of those shows like 20/20 where people have actually signed a false confession because they were tired of being grilled by the police.
As far as politics, well, there are of course cases where public pressure has caused police to rush an investigation and they end up arresting the wrong person. Look at how many death row sentences have been overturned in the last few years due to false testimony, witness errors, or DNA showing the wrong person was arrested.
I think what it comes down to is this. What kind of ethics and morals does the person have? Would a person steal something even though they knew nobody was watching? There are crooks and dishonest people in all walks of life, it's too bad some of them carry badges and guns.
If it comes out to be thats what happened, I would think it would be a lot worse on the husband and his friend for sure. The wife would almost be forced to choose between putting her sexual partner away for 4-5 years for rape, or having her husband do time.
I've seen it it the military where one cries rape (from everything from fear of being pregnant, to just being vindictive over a bad breakup), only to come clean after the soldier/airman was charged or worse- convicted.
My friend was jailed for rape, wrongly, for two years before being exonerated by belated DNA testing. It was a f****g nightmare for him, and worse, the real rapist actually committed two more rapes subsequent to the original crime my friend was bagged for. Essentially, my friend was convicted on a he said/she said testimony, and since he couldn't afford a real lawyer, the public defender was way out of his league. The case was miserably handled, most notably with the lack of immediate DNA testing.
Contrary to popular belief, DNA testing is rarely conducted on an immediate basis as it costs over $15,000, and unless the defense pays for it or the case is deemed significantly important enough to the community, the DNA is not going to be used if the judge feels the case can be tried without it. At least that's how it is here in Nevada.
In fact, he couldn't even get off the sex offender registry for 6 months after he was EXONERATED, that's how screwed up the system is. Of course, being on the registry pretty much kept him from decent work and he had to live in his car until he was finally propagated out of the system.
So I'm not so much to jump on the vigilante bandwagon for such a serious charge as rape anymore, though the vigilante gene in my body is as strong as the next red-blooded male.
Contrary to popular belief, DNA testing is rarely conducted on an immediate basis as it costs over $15,000, and unless the defense pays for it or the case is deemed significantly important enough to the community, the DNA is not going to be used if the judge feels the case can be tried without it. At least that's how it is here in Nevada.
In fact, he couldn't even get off the sex offender registry for 6 months after he was EXONERATED, that's how screwed up the system is. Of course, being on the registry pretty much kept him from decent work and he had to live in his car until he was finally propagated out of the system.
So I'm not so much to jump on the vigilante bandwagon for such a serious charge as rape anymore, though the vigilante gene in my body is as strong as the next red-blooded male.
Unless something is not right with the Story.
