Wow, it's nice to read about a district attorney who is actively working with the Innocence Project and others to find people who were wrongfully convicted in his jurisdiction (by predecessors, it seems.) I understand that people are often unwilling to admit mistakes, but the intransigence of DAs on this issue mystifies me. Do they somehow not realize that for every innocent convicted, some guilty person is out there, not paying for the crime? You would think that this angle, at least, would interest them. Fetishization of "finality" at the expense of simple justice mystifies me. (Cough, Scalia, cough.)
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Posted by: grackle | March 31, 2009 at 02:31 AM
What's particularly mind-blowing about that story is that the DA is from Dallas (now the home town of "W"; and always a really conservative constituency in the really conservative Texas)...
Posted by: Laleh | April 07, 2009 at 05:34 AM