“FWIW, the Innocence Project confirms the guilt of roughly half the cases they take on.”
FWIW, the Innocence Project confirms the innocence of roughly half the cases they take on.
Those 3 justices should be ashamed of themselves.
I'm actually surprised to see Roberts on the majority side on this one. He's been critical of the Innocence Project (IP) in the past expressing a fear that DNA testing risks "unnecessarily overthrowing the established system of criminal justice."
I disagree with this.
It's my opinion that anytime someone sits in prison wrongly convicted for a crime they didn't commit --even if this person is otherwise a scumbag with a mile-long rap sheet (as many IP defendants are) it still means that there is a guilty person walking the streets, a threat to society, who got away with a crime.