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To: deport
“Are you saying these people should be kept in confinement if there is reasonable doubt/evidence to exonerate them?”

Absolutely not.

My point is entirely different.

I'm saying that some ex-convicts could well try to game the system. To create a situation from this point forward where they get themselves convicted of a crime on purpose all the while having hard proof they didn't do it. In other words, the whole thing is staged. So that at a later date that hard proof will mysteriously appear proving they were wrongfully convicted.

The ex-convict stays in prison for 5 years and walks out the door with $400k. An opportunity that may well be far better than any other they have in their life.

48 posted on 09/06/2009 4:35:36 PM PDT by DB
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To: DB

I’m saying that some ex-convicts could well try to game the system.


Yep some may try. That just means the states and DAs/prosecution needs to be ever mindful of suddenly appearing proof of innocence. But that doesn’t delete the need to try and free those wrongly incarcerated with some type compensation for the erroneous incarceration.


49 posted on 09/06/2009 5:00:19 PM PDT by deport
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