Originally Posted By Mr X “You can take the handcuffs off,” Judge Richard Damiani said. And with that, a man who has been in jail for 21 years — and was supposed to spend decades more behind bars — walked away a free man. DNA set him free. The dramatic release took place Wednesday morning in Connecticut Superior Court on Church Street. Kenneth Ireland went to jail in 1988, at the age of 20, convicted of raping and killing a woman named Barbara Pelkey of Wallingford. The sentence: 50 years. <a href="http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/08/you_can_take_th.php" target="_blank">http://www.newhavenindependent...e_th.php</a> To all those "torture the bastards!" and "let em rot forever" types, this is kinda the reason why citizens of the world deserve fair trials (and even re-examination of the evidence thereafter, maybe). Just sayin.
Originally Posted By imadisneygal I think any case in which there is DNA evidence from the crime (and DNA wasn't checked the first time due to lack of technology at the time of the trial) should be automatically and immiediately revisited and I don't think that's the case right now. I think the accused/convicted has to appeal and go through all sorts of hoops to even have DNA evidence checked. This is ridiculous that the technology has existed for quite some time and yet this man sat in jail waiting for his appeal or whatever to come up.
Originally Posted By DAR <<To all those "torture the bastards!" and "let em rot forever" types, this is kinda the reason why citizens of the world deserve fair trials (and even re-examination of the evidence thereafter, maybe). Just sayin.>> This might shock you but I'm glad this guy is out if the evidence proved it. His life was ruined and the lives of those related to the victim were ruined. Unfortunately the person that did commit the crime likely was never caught.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***This might shock you but I'm glad this guy is out if the evidence proved it.*** Why would I be shocked? My only point is, that people such as yourself who apply such blanket statements to "justice" should keep this sort of thing in mind and not simply assume that everyone *is* in fact a bad guy just because their arrestors say they are.
Originally Posted By mawnck In other words, if he was a Muslim, you would've sent him back to jail anyway. That's what you've been advocating.
