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<blockquote data-quote="donner" data-source="post: 2741656" data-attributes="member: 277"><p>Most of those issues cut both ways, though. The friend you told the cops you were with that night 20 years ago when they say you killed someone could have forgot or died. Or never mind that the prosecutor failed to turn over the police report where they found an elderly witness who said they saw someone else that night at the scene of a crime.</p><p></p><p>DNA is great and all, but the evidence that could clear someone could just as easily go missing as the evidence that proves them guilty. And one reason that people recant, and which has come up in several cases, was that the original confession was forced or coerced. Just look at the stories coming out of Chicago about the torture that suspects faced under Jon Burge. </p><p></p><p>Texas Monthly has an amazing story about someone who spent 18 years in prison (12 on death row) was eventually exonerated </p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/innocence-lost" target="_blank">Innocents Lost</a></p><p></p><p>The followup story is good, as well. </p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/innocence-found" target="_blank">Innocents Found</a></p><p></p><p>Both are long reads, but very good.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donner, post: 2741656, member: 277"] Most of those issues cut both ways, though. The friend you told the cops you were with that night 20 years ago when they say you killed someone could have forgot or died. Or never mind that the prosecutor failed to turn over the police report where they found an elderly witness who said they saw someone else that night at the scene of a crime. DNA is great and all, but the evidence that could clear someone could just as easily go missing as the evidence that proves them guilty. And one reason that people recant, and which has come up in several cases, was that the original confession was forced or coerced. Just look at the stories coming out of Chicago about the torture that suspects faced under Jon Burge. Texas Monthly has an amazing story about someone who spent 18 years in prison (12 on death row) was eventually exonerated [URL="http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/innocence-lost"]Innocents Lost[/URL] The followup story is good, as well. [URL="http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/innocence-found"]Innocents Found[/URL] Both are long reads, but very good. [/QUOTE]
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