It only took 215 years
PA Senator Stewart Greenleaf announced Monday that he is introducing legislation to establish an "innocence commission" to study why innocent people are convicted in PA. The Central Pennsylvania Abolitionist is all over it.New criminal justice study in PA?
PAUADP on innocence commission
Greenleaf officially introduces bill to establish the Innocence Commission of Pennsylvania
The purpose, as reported here previously, is to examine "the causes of wrongful conviction and finding the best methods of reducing the chances that what happened to Thomas Doswell will not happen to any other person."
Now, I can tell you the reasons:
1. Underpaid, overworked, underfunded, sometimes unskilled defense attorneys for the poor
2. Prosecutorial misconduct
3. Police misconduct
4. The impact of race
See? That was easy. They can just forget the commission and give me the money that would have been spent.
posted by Kinder Gentler Little Man @ 12:24 AM
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