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We don't KNOW they were innocent, we only know that he was able to cast enough doubt on the cases that they were freed.

But that's the way our justice system works. There are lots of guilty people going around free out there. That's the trade-off we make for having a system which presumes your innocense and requires a finding of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt to establish your guilt. Surely you've heard of the adage, better to let 10 guilty men go free than one wrongly convicted. That's the principle at work here. If there was enough doubt in the cases, they SHOULD have been freed; if there is anything less than "guilt beyond a reaosonable doubt," they should have been freed. Is there a chance that a guilty person will go free under this system? Sure. That's the chance we take to protect the rights of the innocent in this country.

Yes, and I agree with it. I remember arguing with people who said that in child abuse cases, the crime is so bad that it's better to jail innocent people then take the chance of letting a guilty person go free.