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To: runningbear
114 and counting: That's the number of men released from death rows in the United States in the past 12 years, after DNA forensic science proved they could not have committed the crimes the jurors said they did.

I admit it.

I committed all those crimes.

2 posted on 05/19/2003 5:55:49 AM PDT by Lazamataz ( "People that quote themselves in their taglines bother me." - Lazamataz)
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To: Lazamataz
OJ did a couple of them.
5 posted on 05/19/2003 5:57:18 AM PDT by toothless (I AM A MAN)
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To: Lazamataz
Hey, stop beings sucha glory hound - you know you had help... ;0)
9 posted on 05/19/2003 6:00:40 AM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (All other things being equal, fat people use more soap)
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To: Lazamataz
LOL.... gee, how many sparkies would that be?....;o)/humor continuing....
10 posted on 05/19/2003 6:00:57 AM PDT by runningbear (Lurkers beware, Freeping is public opinions based on facts, theories, and news online.......)
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To: Lazamataz; toothless
Is it not more correct to report that the new evidence is in many cases NOT proof of guilt since it is often indefinite?

With this lack of proof, time passed, and death of witnesses, it is often not INNOCENSE PROVED...it is just not possible to go back and do it over again! They are then released!

I have a problem with the blanket statement that all were NOT GUILTY of the crimes.
11 posted on 05/19/2003 6:05:01 AM PDT by 3D-JOY
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To: Lazamataz
This "114 and counting" is a phoney number. That IS the number of people gotten off death row. That is NOT the number released because of DNA analysis. Perhaps 10 were released for DNA reasons (and DNA was not an established, acceptable science at the time of their trials).

Most of the rest were released because their convictions were reversed on a technicality, decades after their crimes. Witnesses have died. Circumstances have changes. Prosecutors, while still convinced of the defendants' guilt, have declined to try the cases again -- perhaps for the third or fourth time, at public expense for both prosecution and defense.

Since the lead article in this compilation begins with a flat-out lie in its title and lead sentence, no further attention should be paid to it.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, now up FR, "News Unfit to Print."

62 posted on 05/19/2003 8:20:44 AM PDT by Congressman Billybob ("Saddam has left the building. Heck, the building has left the building.")
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To: Lazamataz
I committed all those crimes.

They done it!


72 posted on 05/19/2003 8:44:40 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Subvert the conspiracy of inanimate objects!)
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To: Lazamataz
DNA, Daughters of Native America inform us that they never make mistakes! Ah, science!
92 posted on 05/19/2003 9:42:58 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Subvert the conspiracy of inanimate objects!)
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To: Lazamataz
I admit it.

I committed all those crimes.

Well, you're off the hook for one high-profile California murder, at least.


234 posted on 05/19/2003 2:11:04 PM PDT by archy (Keep in mind that the milk of human kindness comes from a beast that is both cannibal and a vampire.)
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To: Lazamataz
http://www.alpharee.com/laci/laci.html

pics from the Peterson home.

403 posted on 05/19/2003 9:30:50 PM PDT by joyce11111
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