man exonerated after 29years on death row....

[dusselldorf]

Here's an example of a man turned loose for a murder conviction after 10 years. He had two eye witness testimonies against him who later admitted to lying, and he's now filing a suit claiming in part that prosecutors suppressed evidence that would have acquitted him. This kind of crap happens every day.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/11/justic...guson-lawsuit/

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NOW it's usually DNA. And DNA just doesn't lie

Uh, yes it does. Take for instance something with a 99.9% accuracy rate. That means for every 1000 people, one of them will be wrongfully held guilty. Take a city with a large population, say Dallas. That's 1.3 million people. 1,300,000,000/1,000 will give you *multiple* people in that city for which the evidence would be wrong.

Furthermore, the evidence is handled by people, and people can ere. Samples can get mixed up. Tests can be botched.

Add to that a not so distant case of a doctor rapist who beat the dna tests by surgically inserting a sealed tube of someone else's blood in his forearm.

The simple fact of the matter is that no evidence is bullet proof. And yes, it can lie if used incorrectly.

[Drikkink]

I'd like to say about the death penalty (though it is slightly off topic) that I disagree with it. Not because it's "inhumane" but because death is often too good for the people (rightfully) convicted of crimes worthy of the death penalty.

As for the story at hand, yup, our justice system sucks. Did suck. Does suck. Will always suck. It is virtually impossible to create an entirely unbiased jury. You also cannot have a trial decided by someone like a judge because corruption happens and, again, they are subject to bias as well. There really is no good way to fix our justice system. Hell, there's very little that can be done to create a good justice system.