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Originally Posted by RAVEN_DUST
I believe that the "system" repays a person if they are wrongly convicted and incarcerated. I myself have never had any faith in the justice system. Juries, Judges, DA's, Lawyers, and Cops are all fallible. All in some since can have an agenda. Can and will lie to, in the end, get their way. I'm willing to bet someone in this case was over zealous to get ahead somehow in their career. This man paid the price for 26 years. I can remember a couple times this year that a person was released from prison here in the Dallas area due to DNA evidence. Thankfully modern science was able to come forth and provide the evidence to make right what was made wrong by the system.
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No doubt about it. The justice system is fallible because it is made up of humans. However, I think you are a bit zealous in your stating all can and will lie to get their way. In fact our system is set up to insure individual agendas are at least minimized by the system. Consider the Duke Lacrosse case. Was that not a case in which an individuals' agenda was minimized by the system ? I would also like to point out that the Investigators in that case were at odds with the District Attorney and his assessment of the victim's veracity.
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