Article: "Better 10 Guilty Men Go Free than to Convict a Single Innocent Man" - FindLaw

[WillyT]

Moreover, do we all still agree that it truly is “Better that 10 guilty men go free than to convict a single innocent man” or has it become too easy to ignore the reality of wrongful conviction; as long as it isn't happening to our own neighbors? The Innocence Project has now had some 100 death sentences overturned based upon post-conviction evidence. According to their study of the first 70 cases reversed:

• Over 30 of them involved prosecutorial misconduct.
• Over 30 of them involved police misconduct which led to wrongful convictions.
• Approximately 15 of them involved false witness testimony.
• 34% of the police misconduct cases involved suppression of exculpatory evidence.
• 11% involved outright evidence fabrication.
• 37% of the prosecutorial misconduct cases involved concealing exculpatory evidence.
• 25% involved knowing use of false testimony.

Keep in mind; these statistics involve Death Penalty cases wherein the State sought to literally kill the innocent person who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

How many of those 100 innocent, wrongly accused citizens were convicted in the media before jury selection ever began in their trial? How many were wholly deprived of their Constitutional Presumption of Innocence? If we allow ourselves to make watershed decisions far "upstream" about whom is and is not deserving of the protections afforded by our Constitution, our entire system of justice becomes a hollow shell with a predetermined outcome.

Much More: http://knowledgebase.findlaw.com/kb/2009/Jun/CS060809.html

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[Demeter]

1. And What About Predator Drone Victims? They Never Even Get Near a Legal Procedure

but they are just as dead, or worse, maimed for life.

[MH1]

5. What? you're saying the injustice given in the OP is irrelevant because of some other injustice?

Do you just not give a shit whether an innocent person is locked up and maybe executed? "Hey look over here at MY issue!!!"

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[Demeter]

9. I am including and broadening the focus

This is a sick, unjust nation, and it's getting worse. Connect the dots, and you start to get a clearer picture.

Focus on one dot, and you could go blind or crazy or both.

[kestrel91316]

6. Totally off-topic thread hijack.

[Demeter]

8. I am capable of seeing injustice wherever it occurs. It's all bad.

And to focus on one and exclude another is to pick nits.

[teddy51]

2. "The Innocence Project" Your two sentences are exactlly why TDP should done away with.

"The Innocence Project has now had some 100 death sentences overturned based upon post-conviction evidence. According to their study of the first 70 cases reversed:"

[fishwax]

3. k/r

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[still_one]

4. It is better not o convict an innocent person period. /nt

[Solly Mack]

7. K&R

[WillyT]

10. Kick !!!

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[WillyT]

11. Last Kick From Me...

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[marmar]

12. K&R

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