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05-31-2007 08:11 PM |
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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
(Post 349211)
Yes it is. Volunteer groups are continually finding evidence that was missing, ignored, or suppressed during trial and exonerating people who have exhausted their appeals. Six in PA, just two fewer than Texas. Innocent convicts not lucky enough to get that volunteer attention (or not lucky enough for the real killer to have left DNA evidence, or not lucky enough for any evidence from the trial to have been properly stored, etc.) have been and will continue to be executed.
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Not just volunteer groups, the system is reversing convictions too.
Six in PA.
Wilson got a new trial because he didn't have enough black jurors and the state said in the retrial they couldn't go for the death penalty again. Then they did a DNA test that showed there was another person at the crime seen besides him and the multiple victims.
Yarris is a scumbag that should have been executed. He caused his own problems by trying to frame some one else for his own gain, then telling them he was there when he wasn't.
Kimball was freed when they found out someone else could possibly have killed the four people. Not that the person did or Kimball didn't. The system corrected itself.
Nieves case went to the PA Supreme Court being a capital case. They ruled he was not represented properly. The system worked as it should, that's why capital cases are long and involved with all kinds of reviews.
Smith's case was bizarre, with the lead investigator taking money from Joseph Wambaugh, to provide inside information for his novel. Here again, the system corrected itself when the high court stepped in. I still think that sob is guilty.
Ferber was freed when the DA found new evidence shortly after the trial and urged the judge to grant a new trial. The system corrected itself this time by the prosecutors action.
I'm not sure about Wilson, but I don't see any evidence of volunteers in the other cases.
Oh, and none of them were executed even though I think two of them should be.
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