I do get the point of why not to punish her. If she gets punished literally no woman will come forward to admit they lied and innocent men could spend more time in jail. I think women that get caught lying about it should be punished, and quite severely, but if you come forward and get an innocent man released from prison I can understand why you dont get punished. I do believe whoever sentenced him should be either fired for extreme incompetence and then the state pay reperations for the prison time as well as getting his name of the list instantly without him having to piss around with a stupid system.
Ok let's think about this. Someone is wrongly convicted of arson/assault/some other crime. 10 years down the line, the real criminal comes forward and the wrongly convicted is released.
Should we avoid punishment of the real criminal because they came forward?
Yes, current innocent prisoners are important to me. What's more important is making it abundantly clear that we don't tolerate perjury so it doesn't happen in the future.
I don't think that girl deserves the title of daughter, to be honest, and that's the only real punishment necessary.
I would, however, prefer that the wrongly accused was given the means to rebuild their life.
Because she WASNT A WOMAN.
If she had killed her father with a hand grenade at the age of 11 would you be blaming her, or would you want to know why the !#$# someone trusted an 11 year old with a hand grenade ?
If she had been her current age when she lied, I'd be all for punishing her, but the legal system that convicted her father knew full well how unreliable her testimony was at the time, but threw her father away anyways.
Thats why the DA that put him in jail needs to be disbarred and charged.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_lacrosse_case
Sometimes false allegations of rape affect more than the accused, and thats why its incumbent on the prosecutors to get it right.
Jailing attorneys? I hope you were joking with that, because even the concept of that is absolutely ridiculous. Attorneys should absolutely not be jailed for fulfilling their contracts, either with the defendant or the prosecutor.
Than our views are incompatible, due to my own belief that the vindication of other innocent men is more important than punishing perjury in this specific type of incident. I could continue this, but its probably best we go our separate ways in the topic.