Man released after murder conviction overturned

Source: CBS News

(Bonus story below)

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Anthony was convicted of fatally shooting a man outside a South Los Angeles brothel in a 1995 trial and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. But last Friday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Kelvin D. Filer overturned Anthony's conviction after determining that the prosecution's star witness, a pimp, lied to the jury.

Anthony said he wasn't at the scene and has maintained his innocence.

Laurie Levenson, who helped secure Anthony's release, said the witness has since admitted that his previous testimony was wrong and that he never saw the shooter.

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Student members of the Project for the Innocent team at Loyola Law School and the Northern California Innocence Project at Santa Clara University School of Law worked on Anthony's case for 3 ½ years and appeared at a September evidentiary hearing.


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Bonus Story:

Wrongly Imprisoned Man Goes Free After 25 Years

A Texas grocery store employee who was wrongly convicted and spent nearly 25 years in prison in his wife's beating death walked free Tuesday after DNA tests showed another man was responsible. His attorneys say prosecutors and investigators deliberately kept evidence out of court that would have helped acquit him at trial

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/04/national/main20115395.shtml?tag=stack

From April 2010: "Olbermann: Obama orders assassination of US citizen"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x607595

Or is agenda all you've got?

A pimp lied to the jury? Imagine that.

"We do not have a perfect system of justice, but we have the best system of justice in the world."

It is FAR from the best system of justice in the world. We are killing innocents.

EOM

And moreoever the need for quick executions right after conviction, without any absurd appeals process.

That's the only way to keep people from escaping punishment through a technicality.

Like innocence.

unfortunately there seem to be more innocent people in jail. I found a link to a legal clinic called the Innocence project, which has exonerated 273 people sofar, including Michael Morton, the guy in the article above who spent 25 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.

http://www.innocenceproject.org/

I hope they keep up the good work, it is sorely needed.