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Thread (Discussion): [Contra Costa Times] DNA tests clear Ga. inmate of 25-year-old rape charges - orolan
Message 169766
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Posted by admin
on Dec 19, 2005 08:31 PM | Also by admin
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Discuss the article DNA tests clear Ga. inmate of 25-year-old rape charges, by Daniel Yee, which appeared on Contra Costa Times on December 10, 2005.
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Message 169810 (In Reply to Message 169766)
Posted by orolan
on Dec 20, 2005 10:25 PM | Also by orolan
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I think in the past year the number of sex offenders released from prison decades after a wrongful conviction is equal to the number of sex offenders who reoffended with truly heinous and inexcusable acts.
So why is it everybody assumes all sex offneders are John Couey and they start screaming about denial issues if an offender alludes they are more on a par with Robert Clark?
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Message 169841 (In Reply to Message 169810)
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and just think.....it only took them 20+ years to realize they had shafted another innocent person.....
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Message 169852 (In Reply to Message 169810)
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on Dec 21, 2005 02:16 PM | Also by 1dadof5
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I think you might just be correct, Orolan.
It also calls into suspicion the reliability of police lineups and making a positive ID of a suspect. Often, the victim will pick someone under pressure by police even if they arent sure. And no one seems to care. Victims are never wrong is the LEA mentality.
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Message 169876 (In Reply to Message 169852)
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on Dec 21, 2005 10:50 PM | Also by orolan
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I'm reminded of the guy from Orlando some years ago who was accused of raping a British tourist on the basis of the victim picking him out of a mugshot book. Turns out the accused was in Atlanta working and had about 8 eyewitnesses stating he was in Atlanta at the time. Not to mention record of having cashed his paycheck in Atlanta that very day. None of that was good enough, so they locked him up without bail. Then after about a month the DNA test came back. Not his. So what happened? The judge was kind enough to then release the accused on $50,000 bail on the condition that he wear an ankle bracelet and abide by house arrest rules until the State Attorney decided if he wanted to PROCEED WITH THE CHARGES!
Total madness. Not sure what happened to him. Knowing Florida's justice system he was convicted at trial and sentenced to 40 years.
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Message 169889 (In Reply to Message 169876)
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of course they did.....then if he violates even one of those idiotic rules...they now have a new charge they can hit him with and use it to blackmail him to plead out....that way they avoid being wrong....
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169766, admin, Dec 19, 2005 08:31 PM [Introduction]
169810, orolan, Dec 20, 2005 10:25 PM
169841, rodsmith, Dec 21, 2005 06:48 AM
169852, 1dadof5, Dec 21, 2005 02:16 PM
169876, orolan, Dec 21, 2005 10:50 PM
169889, rodsmith, Dec 22, 2005 06:30 AM [orolan]
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