Figleaf Posted March 25, 2007 Report Posted March 25, 2007 Compared to the number of trials, I'd liken this to a needle in a haystack, not "producing wrongful convictions like Microsoft produces crashes." You wake up on a beach made up of thousands of flat stones going off miles in either direction. There is a note in your hand and it says: 'Find pieces of gold under some of the beach stones". You turn over one stone, nothing. You turn over two more, nothing. You try one last one, and LO! there's a dubloon of gold. When do you stop turning over stones and decide there's no more gold? Quote
Figleaf Posted March 25, 2007 Report Posted March 25, 2007 I looked at your links figleaf and one thing that struck me was the fact that most of hose listed are old convictions, prior to the rise of DNA.But let me ask you....what do you percieve to be behind wrongful convictions? Perhaps you could list them point form in descending order? That's more order than my opinion has so far. But I will note that a very frequent commonality among many of these cases seems to be failure to disclose relevant evidence to the defence. This is the prosecutors' duty, and is probably the most significant reason I blame them to the extent I do. Quote
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