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It disturbs me that our "justice" system is set up to encourage legal wins instead of factual truths.
Indeed, it frightens me that people aren't outraged. Did you read about this case?
A young and not very bright Pakistani man living in Lodi California was approached by a paid informant and bragged that when he went to Pakistan with his family he went to a terrorist training camp. In reality he spent his time in Pakistan visiting family and playing video games and when he 'confessed' he couldn't even tell them what country this alleged terrorist training camp was in. The FBI knew he wasn't guilty but prosecuted him anyway and he was sentenced to 26 years, after serving 14 years a judge threw out his conviction.
1. A DA: "I need more convictions if I ever hope to be Governor."
2. A defense attorney: "Oh, no, another indigent court appointment -- and I'm late for dinner"
3. Two golf carts.
I'm as shocked neither had sufficient long term memory faculties to remember each other, as much as how ever many partners each had.
Exactly. With something so "pivotal" and defining that happened at a period in her life she would remember specifically or so. If not the both of them, her since it was her case. Very very weird.
Indeed, it frightens me that people aren't outraged. Did you read about this case?
A young and not very bright Pakistani man living in Lodi California was approached by a paid informant and bragged that when he went to Pakistan with his family he went to a terrorist training camp. In reality he spent his time in Pakistan visiting family and playing video games and when he 'confessed' he couldn't even tell them what country this alleged terrorist training camp was in. The FBI knew he wasn't guilty but prosecuted him anyway and he was sentenced to 26 years, after serving 14 years a judge threw out his conviction.
There is a series on Netflix called The Confession Tapes. They cover this case and many others, very scary stuff.
I've watched it, I wish everyone would. Have you heard of Cameron Todd Willingham? He was executed in 2004 for killing his children in a fire, the case was based on an alleged confession while he was in jail and "expert arson testimony" but the arson experts were not experts and completely wrong in their analysis. In 2014 the informant who claimed Willingham confessed admitted that he never confessed and that the DA got him to claim he had by offering him a reduced sentence. It's available to watch online for free on PBS.
This sort of thing is why I'm not a fan of the death penalty. Could you imagine if he'd been executed?
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