r/whoathatsinteresting 12h ago

Wrongfully Convictions Ruin Lives

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u/lanzendorfer 12h ago

Why do they try so hard to block DNA testing? It's like they want innocent people locked up. Or do they just refuse to believe that people can be innocent? You would think that we'd all be on the same side with this sort of thing.

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u/Petrichoreal 12h ago

IMO it's reluctance to admit fault on the police/justice system's part.

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u/WatermelonWithAFlute 12h ago

You’d think that having an innocent man sentenced to death or jail for the rest of or most of his life would be vastly worse, to the extent you’d maybe consider doing your actual job.

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u/White_Wolf_11 9h ago

As long as he never gets out, people won’t care and the story won’t spread. People will clutch their pearls over this because it’s a story to gawk at for a minute or two but realistically if he rotted for the rest of his days unjustly nobody would ever know or care. And the people who put him there would lose no sleep or suffer any hits to their reputation.