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To: Sherman Logan
It makes on wonder how many less well positioned white males have been railroaded on the presumption of guilty.

And for that matter, males of any description or position...

12 posted on 12/18/2009 12:55:23 PM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: abb

True.

It doesn’t get much play because it doesn’t fit the paradigm. But. The various “innocence projects” use DNA and other newly available evidence to re-examine convictions. By far the most common conviction overturned is rape.

To be fair, this is at leaast partly because DNA evidence is more likely to be available. But it does make you wonder.


24 posted on 12/18/2009 2:25:14 PM PST by Sherman Logan ("The price of freedom is the toleration of imperfections." Thomas Sowell)
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