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Actually, over the last year we have had a very similar case going on here in Cleveland. A guy was just cleared of raping a young girl after spending 10 years in jail for the crime. They fought tooth and nail to keep his ass in jail, too. He's going to get some money (a few hundred thousand or something) but not nearly enough to make up for ten _years_ in jail for something he didn't do.
The only thing more fucked up than us putting innocent people in jail is how hard the assholes fight to keep them there. They're interested in prosecution percentages and not lives.
Just watch a judge or prosecutor running for election. "In the last five years, John Q. Doe has put over 3,000,000,000,000,000 people in jail for life. He gets the TOUGHEST sentences." You never see a commercial saying "John Q. Doe carefully considered every case and only prosecuted people he was really, really sure were guilty."
SpaceAce
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