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Wrongly Convicted Forced into Plea Deals to Gain Freedom

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This is an absolutely awesome article. It's long, but it's worth the read. I really feel for Owens, but to be honest I don't hold much sympathy for Thompson. He made his own bed based on short-term irrational choices and dragged an innocent man down in the process.
Wrongly Convicted Forced into Plea Deals to Gain Freedom

What Does an Innocent Man Have to Do to Go Free? Plead Guilty.
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Some legal and cognitive science experts suggest that once detectives and prosecutors commit to a suspect and a theory of the crime, it changes how they evaluate evidence, and then the system itself exacerbates that focus at every step. Prosecutors are rewarded for proving and defending their theories, leaving little incentive to acknowledge weaknesses in cases, particularly in high-stakes crimes such as rape and murder. This mind-set is bolstered by one of the great positives of the system, one which legal experts, even those dedicated to exposing wrongful convictions, acknowledge: Prosecutors generally get it right
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Marty Stroud, a former Louisiana prosecutor, made national headlines in 2015 when he penned a rare public apology for putting an innocent man on death row for 31 years. He told me recently that the system comes down hardest on those without the means to defend themselves. “It’s easy to prosecute those people and put them away and not think twice about it because no one is speaking for them,” he said.
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Because the system is deeply deeply broken prosecutors are not in the end as right as they and other believers in the system like to think they are, and their day to day work tends to be abusive towards the American People.
 
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That's a sad situation, indeed. It shouldn't happen. If evidence clears a convict -- he should walk free -- end of story.
 
"and justice for all?" ....... what a sham we have here in America, the criminal INjustice system .......... crooked police, crooked prosecutors, a crooked system ........
 
Another example of how the rule of law in this country is dead in the water. And has been for decades. Hurricane Carter was not the first nor the last man to be framed by the authorities.
 
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