Maybe the courts should just turn every one loose just in case they are innocent even if the DNA and other evidence points to those persons. I think that those that aren't guilty but are found guilty are few and far between considering the 1,000's of people who are arrested on a daily basis and end up pleading guilty or are found guilty by a jury in the USA.
Obviously by your response, you didn't read the links I posted, sighting case after case, of convicted who were EXONERATED by DNA and, or, exculpatory evidence being uncovered. Much of this exonerating evidence had been available to and surpressed to the Court and def, by the pros before and during trial.
It's easy to sit behind a computer screen and criticize the organizations and people working to free those who are wrongly accused and convicted. The same goes for criticizing those who feel they THINK an injustice is being done when there's no way to prove it, as in this case, because the records are sealed. MOST people behind bars are guilty, but I wasn't talking about MOST guilty persons convicted. I was talking about 'innocent' people convicted because of incompetence, laziness, and people who are in a position of authority, using their OPINION the person on trial is guilty, so they do things on the side of criminal to meet their agenda and convict an innocent person.
With this case, I don't know IF this child is guilty or not. To ME, the pros hasn't {proved} this child did it,..... they just managed to talk a 9 yo child into 'admitting' his actions were responsible for a man's death. To insinuate that I or anyone who questions this child's guilty plea, are implying to turn everyone loose because they COULD be innocent, is, well, disingenuous to the discussion at hand. Just as, IMHO, the only way to OPINE this child's guilt is disingenuous.
There's no way to prove either way, on this board, this child is guilty or innocent. We don't KNOW the facts that haven't been submitted or on file behind sealed records. I would HOPE, that IF this mother truly believes her child is innocent, once his sentence is imposed, she works behind the scenes to find the truth and 'prove' there's an error here. Like I said, IF she believes his innocence AND it can be proven.
I read an article yesterday whereby the person writing the paper on a study taken, it's possible, by the number of cases studied and the percentage of those found innocent, there
could be upwards of 40,000 people behind bars in the U.S. that, in FACT are innocent. The difficulty is working through the legitimately innocent and those that claim they are.
The part that's most troubling is,.................IF this child and say 40,000 convicted 'innocent' people are behind bars as implied, there's 40,000 people walking the streets that got away with their crime. To me, that's NOT acceptable.
JMHO
fran
I must say, I find some of the things you say quite odd at times.
