Expanding on a bit I wrote here a while ago, I posted an essay today at Women in Crime Ink questioning some cases in which DNA should have exonerated several people -- but the opposite happened.
It's never easy - if it's even possible - for commentators to reach strong conclusions on a particular criminal case if they didn't see the trial (or at least read the transcript). But some cases are so cut-and-dry, thanks to DNA, that they can. Even from afar, the conviction of Juan Rivera for the murder of Holly Staker is troubling, and unfortunately it symbolizes a class of cases that undermine our trust in the system.
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Posted by: Maria | May 18, 2009 at 12:46 AM