Forensics Gone Wrong: When DNA Snares the Innocent (2016)
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#2Evidence handling and testing should not be under the control of police, or even prosecution. Incentives need to be aligned toward justice, not convictions.
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#3Evidence handling and testing should not be under the control of police, or even prosecution. Incentives need to be aligned toward justice, not convictions.
Full Process Surveilance is needed to make evidence admissable. If it aint filmed the whole way, it aint valid.
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#4Evidence handling and testing should not be under the control of police, or even prosecution. Incentives need to be aligned toward justice, not convictions.
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#6Evidence handling and testing should not be under the control of police, or even prosecution. Incentives need to be aligned toward justice, not convictions.
I think there's more work we can do to balance the power of individual defendants against the state, but the adversarial justice system is the most accurate and effective system for mediating public safety, punishment, and revenge ever developed in the history of the world.
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This kind of tough talk sounds may sound good to you, but the end result will be that only thugs will dare to be DA.
There needs to be accountability, but this isn’t the way to do it
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Yes but technically the jury are the ones who convicted.
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Nobody has any skin in the game, police, prosecutors, judges. Not even their reputation or ability to get hired somewhere is affected by putting innocent people in jail.
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#10Evidence handling and testing should not be under the control of police, or even prosecution. Incentives need to be aligned toward justice, not convictions.
I think there's more work we can do to balance the power of individual defendants against the state, but the adversarial justice system is the most accurate and effective system for mediating public safety, punishment, and revenge ever developed in the history of the world.
The main concern here is that the system is being nearly entirely bypassed.
Literally 98% of cases plea out^1, bypassing the entire system of court procedure that is supposed to resolve these issues.
1:https://www.npr.org/2023/02/22/1158356619/plea-bargains-crim...