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To: Stoat
I remember a case a few years ago, which took place near that same area in which a young man was convicted of rape.

The strange thing is he had absolute proof he was somewhere else and should not have even been arrested. The truth eventually came out and he was exonerated, but the whole affair was scary as all get out.

I also personally know of a guy who was head of a Federal Law Enforcement Agency, in a medium sized city, and a deacon in the church. He was arrested and charged with rape based solely on a womans seeing him and telling the cops he was the man. He also had an ironclad alibi and the cops did do their job in this case and caught the right one who didn' even look like him. He had the arrest completely removed from the records but the average guy would have gone through life with that arrest report still on their record.

115 posted on 02/05/2005 5:38:39 AM PST by yarddog
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To: yarddog
I remember a case a few years ago, which took place near that same area in which a young man was convicted of rape.

The strange thing is he had absolute proof he was somewhere else and should not have even been arrested. The truth eventually came out and he was exonerated, but the whole affair was scary as all get out.

I also personally know of a guy who was head of a Federal Law Enforcement Agency, in a medium sized city, and a deacon in the church. He was arrested and charged with rape based solely on a womans seeing him and telling the cops he was the man. He also had an ironclad alibi and the cops did do their job in this case and caught the right one who didn' even look like him. He had the arrest completely removed from the records but the average guy would have gone through life with that arrest report still on their record.

Very scary and an important reminder that justice is, unfortunately, not equal for all.

234 posted on 02/05/2005 1:33:52 PM PST by Stoat
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