[Age of Reason]

If you want past conviction information admitted at trial then make that the law. Pretty simple really.

There's also no law saying I have to weep without knowing the "innocent" man's past criminal history.

Which history these kinds of articles don't talk much about--if at all.

[TheOtherOne]

There's also no law saying I have to weep without knowing the "innocent" man's past criminal history.

I don't care, and I am sure he doesn't care, if you weep for him. Get over yourself. He was falsely accused and convicted of this crime.