[Arthur McGowan]

In many, if not most, if not all of these cases of false convictions, the police, prosecutors, and judges knew they were putting away an innocent man.

Whenever a convict is exonerated by DNA or other evidence, an investigation into the behavior of the police, prosecutors, and judges should be opened.

[hosepipe]

Whenever a convict is exonerated by DNA or other evidence, an investigation into the behavior of the police, prosecutors, and judges should be opened.

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Exactly.. BUT it won’t...
Can’t have the sheeple suspecting the sheep dogs can we..
Even if they have “mutton” on their breath..

Statists will excuse multiple murder by officials while being OUT RAGED at spitting on the sidewalk..
They really must be mentally defective..

[Nifster]

glad to see you are so all knowing

[reasonisfaith]

Absolutely.

The right to be an officer of the court or of the law should come with the responsibility of allowing yourself to be held accountable.

[varmintman]

Whenever a convict is exonerated by DNA or other evidence, an investigation into the behavior of the police, prosecutors, and judges should be opened.

Best would be to get rid of the entire "adversarial" system of justice and the job of DA altogether. The job of DA entails giant powers and almost nothing resembling accountability, it's a magnet for psychopaths. Better would be something like the French system in which the common incentive for all state personnel is to figure out what happened; NOBODY should have any sort of a career/money incentive to simply put people in prison. We could keep juries while adopting that sort of system.

[erkelly]

And that is even more true for so-called sex offenders. My guess would be that only 1 of 10 is guilty, and there is going to be plenty of objective evidence that guilty man is indeed guilty. For the other entirely innocent 90%, there is nothing but an allegation with nothing to back it up except some very dubious psychotherapy, and sometimes even worse, a very strong incentive to accuse. The prosecutors know this, and that there is a bonus for them with a conviction. Thus they will often go to great lengths to suppress exculpatory evidence because they have the advantage of the knee jerk reaction of potential jurors, not to mention and their job is made even easier given that these new laws make it so difficult against anyone accused of these crimes to defend himself. So they go ahead and prosecute, knowingly forcing the innocent defendant into a Hobbsian choice, does he take a plea bargain, go to prison a few years in a protected environment, and then spend the rest of his life as a registered sex offender; or face the possibility spending the rest of his life in prison in the general population as a marked man likely to be murdered by a fellow inmate.