I believe Barry Scheck, his associates and anti-death penalty types would have no moral qualms about pulling some trick or fraud.
There are people like magicians and card sharks that can switch objects or manipulate objects while you are closely watching them. I would feel much more comfortable if I knew for an absolute fact that every possible avenue of fraud was covered.
What if, for example, someone with access to the location where the evidence was stored from old cases was bribed or for their own reasons changed the evidence samples. The police could closely monitor the testing process and still be fooled because the original sample taken years earlier was switched.
There have been a number of these cases where there was other evidence which strongly indicated guilt and I think there are at least two cases where the “innocent” man was released and not long after being released committed a rape or murder.
In quite a few of these cases the “real” rapist has been later found (fortunately a lot of the time they end up locked away for other crimes.)
Sometimes you just have to admit the police and prosecutors aren’t perfect, victims make mistakes, and juries are uneducated rather than falling back on “Barry Sheck and the Innocence Project are a bunch of Commie Pinko Liberals.”
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Read his book “Actual Innocence”. He explains several cases like this one.
It will give you chills about our legal system. It opened my eyes.
Then the defendant wins. If the prosecutor can't secure the evidence from tampering, then there is no good cause for a conviction. The tampering could just as easily have been perpetrated in order to win a fraudulent conviction. The burden is on the prosecution to prove that the evidence has not been tampered with by anybody.