Storied former boxer, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was in town to participate in a local court case having to do with potentially wrongful conviction.In a Seattle Times story by Sara Jean Green, two are serving three life sentences in Washington state prisons and they may be doing so with false confessions holding them there.
Carter knows a thing or two about this topic, having been the victim of bad testimony landing him in prison. You may have heard the 1976 Bob Dylan song about him and his case. He spoke earlier this week at the University of Washington School of Law. Released from prison in 1985, Carter said false confessions play a huge role in wrongful convictions.
Your thoughts?
2 comments:
That's one problem with eyewitness......
We can't always trust people, and oath means nothing to those who think it's nothing.
Even if they don't meant to lie, they might made mistakes
(I remember a science report that talks about our brains tend to "fill in the missing details" with what we "think we saw" instead of what we really sees.....we're all humans.....)
Maybe the "presume innocent" idea doesn't work well with eyewitnesses.
I don't know for sure with this case about the judge said "overwhelming prove" but i think the hardest part of a case is that if there is no prove in a case then the judge's decision must be based on witness's testimony, if there are several witnesses then it is not a problem but if there is only 1 witnesses then it is a big problem for both side. There might also conspiracy and bribe from the guilty person to make sure he can free from the sentence.
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