| A question for Barry Scheck; Larry King Live Oct. 6, 2010 | |
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| Quasimodo | Oct 10 2010, 04:39 PM Post #1 |
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My Question: I'd like to know if the Innocence Project would have taken on the case of the Duke Three if they had been convicted? Someday I wish Larry King or some other reporter who is doing an interview would ask that question |
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| Quasimodo | Oct 10 2010, 04:44 PM Post #2 |
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A new movie is coming out, "Conviction", which is the story of a woman who worked years to free her wrongly-convicted brother, helped by the Innocent Project (and the occasion of the Scheck interview) This can be a useful teaching tool (and much needed). But I still think a syndicated TV series patterned after "America's Most Wanted", telling the story of wrongfully-convicted persons, and hosted by CDR, would do better to educate the country (and also reinforce the fact that they themselves were falsely-accused and nearly railroaded). Edited by Quasimodo, Oct 10 2010, 05:24 PM.
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| Quasimodo | Oct 10 2010, 05:23 PM Post #3 |
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As well, I remember that Barry Scheck was involved in the O.J. Simpson case--certainly someone whom he must have believed was more likely to be guilty than CDR. CDR were proven innocent by DNA evidence so compelling that had they already been in prison, they would have been released (their DNA was not found, the DNA of others WAS found). O.J. had not yet been convicted--and Scheck was willing to be on the team. But still we had Neufeld saying that "absence of evidence is not evidence", and saying so exactly at the time when Nifong desperately needed a DNA expert to speak with the 'voice of an expert authority' in order to save his prosecution. If the case didn't end in April 2006 (BEFORE ANY INDICTMENTS HAD BEEN MADE), the fault must like with Nifong; and with the PRESS, which refused to ask any hard questions; and IMHO with Neufeld; who at that moment in April had the power to END the case with a simple repetition of what he has believed in and worked for through decades--that DNA evidence of the type provided in the lax case, under the alleged circumstances, absolutely and irrefutably cleared the defendants beyond any reasonable doubt. And I'd like to know why he avowed otherwise for this one case... Edited by Quasimodo, Oct 10 2010, 05:25 PM.
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| MikeZPU | Oct 20 2010, 07:28 PM Post #4 |
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Once again: how does DNA clear someone, since "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" ? http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/alan-newton-wrongfully-imprisoned-for-rape-awarded-185-million-by-jury/19681954 Man Cleared of Rape Wins $18.5 Million Jury Award Lisa Flam Contributor (Oct. 20) -- A jury has awarded $18.5 million to a New York City man who spent more than 20 years in jail for rape before he was cleared by DNA evidence. The amount awarded Tuesday to Alan Newton is among the largest given to a wrongfully imprisoned person in New York City, The New York Times reported. The jury ruled that the city violated the constitutional rights of Newton, 49, who was released from prison about four years ago. Newton was convicted in 1985 of rape, robbery and assault, based mostly on eyewitness testimony, the Times said. DNA testing on a rape kit found in 2005 showed that DNA from the victim did not match that of Newton. "I'm just real numb right now," Newton told the Times. "It hasn't really sunk in. It's so emotional. It's something I've been fighting for the last four years, since I came home. I'm just glad things worked out at the end of the day." A spokeswoman for the city's Law Department said the city was "disappointed" and planned to appeal. |
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| Quasimodo | Oct 21 2010, 12:45 PM Post #5 |
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But the total absence of DNA from a half-hour struggle and gang rape in a confined space, is NOT proof that no such struggle and rape took place-- --The Innocence Project
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