>>>I am all for punishing the guilty (short of capital punishment) but these wrongful convictions drive me nuts. It says the conviction was overturned because evidence was withheld from his attorneys. Uh, they are not supposed to do that. There have been a number of cases here in Illinois where it was pretty clear the prosecution was more interested in conviction rates than justice being done. In some of the cases the accused was convicted and sentenced to death row. Many of the convictions were later overturned on DNA evidence, which was in its infancy at the time of their trial. They are being released at a steady rate. But how do you give them back the 10-20 years they spent in prison?
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They should just make them at least liable before civil court -
had expected such in litigation-happy US legal system...