Re:New York inmate's golf drawings lead to exoneration in mu...
by kamaal on Thursday September 20, 2018 @01:28PM
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>>If you take a random sampling of 100 situations where there exists facts similar to this case, I think you’d find that 95%+ of the time the accused really did commit the murder.
That's 5 innocent people sentenced per hundred people to death/prison for a crime they didn't commit.
That is a lot.
In many cases for the innocent, the trial itself is a big punishment.
Re:New York inmate's golf drawings lead to exoneration in mu...
by crescentfresh on Thursday September 20, 2018 @12:21PM
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Re #4, didn't she also say she left her door unlocked when she went to work that morning and when she came home it was locked, and that Jeff was the only person who locks her door when he's finished his work for her?
Having motive to kill someone doesn’t prove you did it. But statistically, those with motive are much more likely to be the killer than a random person. That narrows the probability. Likewise, lying about where you were at the time of the murder (which is what #4 is about) doesn’t prove you committed it, but makes it more likely. Those compund—each additional fact narrows the probability that the accused is not guilty.
If you take a random sampling of 100 situations where there exists facts similar to this case, I think you’d find that 95%+ of the time the accused really did commit the murder. That’s all that’s required.