We have to come face to face with the fact that our justice system has become corrupted by politics in many, many ways.
If you read the story, there's no getting around this damning fact: One of the alleged perpetrators cooperated with police and testified against the other one for a crime that neither one of them apparently committed.
I don’t think this was political. Both of the guys, who were teenagers at the time, ratted each other out. So it’s possible that they were just scared and blamed each other for that reason, since they were tried separately and one got a lighter sentence than the other (although they were in jail for the same length of time).
I would suspect, however, based on my knowledge of NYC at that time, that they were also too stoned to give a decent statement or even remember what they had actually been doing at the time. I think this is a problem that is only going to become worse.
Oh come on. DNA typing was in its infancy when these murders were committed. This is a case that shows that when the facts can be mustered the innocent are released.
if you had told me that these men wee excited on someone’s false testimony then we could have a discussion about corruption.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar