The decision affirms a lower court’s ruling nullifying Jimmie “Chris” Duncan’s 1998 first-degree murder conviction. Duncan was convicted based in part on forensic evidence that is now widely regarded as junk science.
It’s amazing that so many people I speak to don’t understand this. Too many Americans just think that if you’re on death row, you did some pretty serious shit that it shortwires their brain into not being even remotely skeptical of the US justice system
Many of us have been programmed since we were children to see arrested = horrible criminal. My parents will watch local news and spout horrible words at people who are announced detained for X or Y crime, despite them not even being convicted of anything yet. The law here is “Guilty unless proven innocent, and even then maybe still guilty if they feel like it”.
It’s amazing that so many people I speak to don’t understand this. Too many Americans just think that if you’re on death row, you did some pretty serious shit that it shortwires their brain into not being even remotely skeptical of the US justice system
Many of us have been programmed since we were children to see arrested = horrible criminal. My parents will watch local news and spout horrible words at people who are announced detained for X or Y crime, despite them not even being convicted of anything yet. The law here is “Guilty unless proven innocent, and even then maybe still guilty if they feel like it”.