The system makes it very easy to convict and very difficult to get out of a conviction. Even if all you have is a crying witness saying “He Did it!” that is usually enough. It doesn’t matter if you have an alibi or were a thousand miles away. The jury figures the cops and DA are honest and wouldn’t put an innocent man on trial. I have seen it many many times. The cops and DA’s think they are doing us a favor.
I think the sin is on us when our elected officials make such mistakes. Poor guy. 26 years is a long time. I hope his burglary sentence was a long one so that he didn’t have a LOT of extra years to suffer.
Well, a DA can’t have too many ‘not guilties’ on his record or the sheeple won’t re-elect him/her...