Two Wrongs Don’t Make A Right

Friday, July 17th, 2009

A young person — I’m not going to provide any more identifying information than that individual did — left a comment to my article about “Defending Innocent People.” The comment is interesting on many different levels.

One of the things that really stood out, though, was this statement:

I do agree that a lot of people convicted are in fact guilty, and even if not for that particular crime than [sic] they probably did something before that and somehow got away with it.

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Innocent Although “Proven” Guilty

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Governor Schwarzenegger today vetoed, among other anti-crime bills, a bill which would have required corroborating evidence for the testimony of jailhouse snitches.

Has the Governor gone soft on crime?

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