Re:Bad Science and Bad Statistics in the Courtroom Convict I...
by jandrese on Monday December 11, 2023 @01:25PM
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This sort of thing happens all the time. The Innocence Project has a multi-year backlog. If you are a black man with a public defender the prosecution almost doesn't even have to show up to get a conviction. Death row is full of people who were railroaded by the system.
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Re:Bad Science and Bad Statistics in the Courtroom Convict I...
by graphe on Monday December 11, 2023 @01:43PM
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Full of is misleading. If 1%-10% are innocent, 99-90% are still guilty. 21 of the 375 men that were innocent were on death row. https://innocenceproject.org/dna-exonerations-in-the-united-...
Are these cases a relic before dna evidence?
Re:Bad Science and Bad Statistics in the Courtroom Convict I...
by jandrese on Monday December 11, 2023 @03:55PM
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That's just for this one project.
I'm not saying everyone is innocent, but the number of people who were wrongly convicted by a lazy system that let shoddy police work and lax standards become the norm is shocking.
There's the old thought process that even if the guy wasn't guilty of this crime he's certainly guilty of others so they would be doing the world a favor by putting him away. In the end this is just self-justified racism.
Re:Bad Science and Bad Statistics in the Courtroom Convict I...
by graphe on Monday December 11, 2023 @05:22PM
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>There's the old thought process that even if the guy wasn't guilty of this crime he's certainly guilty of others so they would be doing the world a favor by putting him away. In the end this is just self-justified racism.
I’m sorry, where is race the factor in this? You could make a weak claim for sexism from your post but there is no racism.