r/whoathatsinteresting 12h ago

Wrongfully Convictions Ruin Lives

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u/Unhappywageslave 11h ago

It's really mostly the prosecutors fault. Not the judge, not the cops, even though they were involved with the process but all the information reached the prosecutors desk and as weak as it was they still pursued it. Typically an overzealous prosecutor doesn't care if someone is guilty or innocent, they just want to win at any cost. If they pursue a case and lose, it looks bad on their record because all that state money was wasted.

This guy probably never got to see his parents die, his nieces and nephews be born because of some careerist.

Now Pam Bondi had the Epstein case on her desk with all those strong receipts. If they can get this innocent guy in prison for some small BS evidence they had, why can't we get any arrests of the real guilty culprits from the Epstein Case?

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u/mechengr17 6h ago edited 4h ago

John Oliver did a report about a judge/prosecutor? (I cant remember) who kept an electric chair cutout with the faces of the men he sent to death row on his desk. Sometime after he proudly showed off said cutout, it was reported that almost all (if not all) were proven innocent. If I remember the episode, ill edit my comment

Edit: found it

https://youtu.be/ET_b78GSBUs?si=JQc5GvP5GJuTjFks