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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I don't know, dude. The fact that you can point out some guys in prison who swear they are innocent but, in fact, are guilty does not make me feel a whole lot better about the innocent guys who rot in jail. A public defender friend of mine has a special name for prisoners who swear they are innocent. She calls them "prisoners." But to spend your life in prison because of an overzealous or crooked prosecutor (or even a well-intentioned one who just made a mistake)? Even worse, if at least part of the reason you were rotting in jail was because of your race? That would make me a bitter man. Um, a bitterer man.
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I'm with you. An honor system would work much better.
