27 Years in prison & innocent

[Topboy]

Another example of how the justice system can get it so so wrong

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/82602...

[Eric Mc]

He didn't help his cause by confessing to the crime in the first place.

Itr is amazing how often individuals confess to crimes they didn't actually commit.

[Topboy]

Eric Mc said:

He didn't help his cause by confessing to the crime in the first place.

Itr is amazing how often individuals confess to crimes they didn't actually commit.

True and Hodgson has obviously got some issues but the police could have used DNA profiling 20 years ago for this.

Add to the fact that the Police ruled out David Lace even after Lace admitted to the police that he committed the murder only goes to show how wrong things can go.

[Jimbeaux]

The advent of widespread DNA technology has freed a number of wrongly accused prisoners over here.

[militantmandy]

Eric Mc said:

He didn't help his cause by confessing to the crime in the first place.

Itr is amazing how often individuals confess to crimes they didn't actually commit.

Some people just can't deal with the pressure of being accused and questioned about a crime.

[Eric Mc]

Have you read "The Innocent Man" by John Grisham?

Regarding DNA testing 20 years ago. The first EVER case solved by DNA testing was in 1983, 26 years ago - so 20 years ago was still early days for these techniques. There have been anumber of major breakthroughs in more recent years which serves to highlight even more miscarriages of justice.

[JJCW]

Really shows the case against capital punishment.

[Disco_Dale]

JJCW said:

Really shows the case against capital punishment.

Not according to "PH Law"
We should have just hung all 7 of the b*st*rds who confessed to it.
That'll learn 'em!

[eldar]

Eric Mc said:

He didn't help his cause by confessing to the crime in the first place.

Itr is amazing how often individuals confess to crimes they didn't actually commit.

30 years ago the police had advanced techniques for persuading people people to confess, more advanced even than Cardinal Biggles and his comfy chair.

The worrying bit is the actual killer confessed after 7 years, and was ignored.

[Odhran]

Just look at the Birmingham 6 or the Guilford 4... It's scary how wrong the 'justice' system can get it sometimes

[thehawk]

JJCW said:

Really shows the case against capital punishment.

Not at all.

We've had immigrants that have committed rape and murder, quite regularly, should we put a halt to all immigration?

[DSM2]

thehawk said:

JJCW said:

Really shows the case against capital punishment.

Not at all.

We've had immigrants that have committed rape and murder, quite regularly, should we put a halt to all immigration?

If you say so.................

[Eric Mc]

thehawk said:

JJCW said:

Really shows the case against capital punishment.

Not at all.

We've had immigrants that have committed rape and murder, quite regularly, should we put a halt to all immigration?

Guilty perople should suffer whatever fate the law decrees. Innocent people shouild not suffer that fate. This discussion is about innocent people who have been found guilty through poor policing, forced confessions or bad evidence and argument presented in court.

[Snoop Bagg]

Thats nothing really.

In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the PH-Team.

[lord summerisle]

Eric Mc said:

He didn't help his cause by confessing to the crime in the first place.

Itr is amazing how often individuals confess to crimes they didn't actually commit.

As did Timothy Evens...
confessed to the murder of his wife and daughter. and swung for it (having been found guilty of murdering his daughter.)

the real killer was hung in 1953

[andymadmak]

JJCW said:

Really shows the case against capital punishment.

No, it does not.

[DBSV8]

eldar said:

30 years ago the police had advanced techniques for persuading people to confess, .

like this


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHP3Jih_rfA