[Popman]

Wow...I hope they sue the crap out the NY justice system...

I wonder who the prosecutor was in this case..

When Yarbough got home, he opened the door to find his mother, sister and a close family friend lying stabbed and strangled to death. The two girls were partially undressed.

I realise it's not impossible for an 18 year old kid to kill their own mother and seemingly sexually assault their own sister and cousin...

Did they find the murder weapon, was their blood on his clothes ???

They put these two kids behind bars for life based on them ratting each other out ???

NY Justice system should ashamed of themselves...

Makes one wonder how many other people have been railroaded into hard time to clean a case file out or up a conviction rate...?

[Alberta's Child]

You have to keep in mind that in many of these jurisdictions the elected officials and law enforcement officers are under legal and political pressure to carry out public mandates that directly at odds with each other -- namely, to "do something" about crime, and to maintain a hands-off approach with minorities. And the legal/political pressure for these contradicting objectives usually comes from the same people.

You see it all the time in drug cases. Back in the 1980s the professional malcontents in places like Brooklyn, NY were complaining that the police and the courts had to "do something" about a rampant problem with crack cocaine. Then, after the entire machinery of legal system and law enforcement was put into place to "do something" about the problem by cleaning the streets, the same professional malcontents complained that stiff sentences for drug possession was making victims out of the nation's permanent underclass.

There's no fixing this kind of problem.