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A problem with our system is the adversarial nature of prosecutor versus the defense as opposed to seeking the truth, no matter what it might be. In this case, as in many others, the prosecutor had more interest in protecting his side than in the truth or the life of the person wrongly convicted. Our system pits lawyerly skills against each other and truth is often the loser.

I have that same problem with the system. It works fine for me in civil litigation. In criminal cases I have often thought there should be a Third party, a neutral party, representing neither the prosecution or the defense, but to bring forward additional facts. I know it would be costly, but I think, as you noted, our current adversarial system does not seek out truth...it seeks victory.