1,300,860,000 minutes.
How do you measure 2,475 years?
apropos of my post about the duke scandal and how innocent people are routinely punished by the judicial system in this country, rsj just brought my attention to the story of a chicago man who was just exonerated, via dna, after spending twenty years in prison for a rape he did not commit. he's the 200th person in the u.s. to be exonerated by dna.
from the cnn.com article: The first exonerations based on DNA testing were in 1989, and in all, the 200 defendants served about 2,475 years in prison for crimes they didn't commit, according to the group's Web site [The Innocence Project].
why is it that the older i get, the more frightening this country becomes?
meanwhile, i can resist saying this: cant we de-exonerate o.j. with dna?
apropos of my post about the duke scandal and how innocent people are routinely punished by the judicial system in this country, rsj just brought my attention to the story of a chicago man who was just exonerated, via dna, after spending twenty years in prison for a rape he did not commit. he's the 200th person in the u.s. to be exonerated by dna.
from the cnn.com article: The first exonerations based on DNA testing were in 1989, and in all, the 200 defendants served about 2,475 years in prison for crimes they didn't commit, according to the group's Web site [The Innocence Project].
why is it that the older i get, the more frightening this country becomes?
meanwhile, i can resist saying this: cant we de-exonerate o.j. with dna?
posted by Colby | 8:52 AM
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how about love?
some thoughts on 'anonymous's comment: 1. i already linked to the lyrics for the rent song (click on the title of the post) so this joke is redundant. 2. if you're gonna be flip in the basilica dont be anonymous. i decry anonymous comments.
own your joke hadi, stanton, or whoever you are!
We can't exonerate OJ because the head of the Innocence Project (which is part of Cardozo School of Law) is Barry Scheck, who was part of OJ's defense team. Is that irony?
actually, i WOULD say that's pretty damn ironic! scheck is still a hero in my book, but OJ running around playing golf will never be anything less than a travesty. id rather guilty ppl go free than innocent ppl go to jail, but OJ is a jack ass.
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