But to grant all such retrials would be too much for this country’s criminal courts to bear. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes, says. Common sense or a modicum of human decency suggests that those found guilty based on bad evidence deserve justice. The criminal justice system treats you better if you are rich & guilty than if you are poor & innocent. What’s the remedy for a person who has been convicted based on so-called science that we now know to be faulty, corrupt or both? One doesn’t need a law degree to answer that question. Eyewitness Evidence And The Innocence Project. To Stevenson and Bauer, all inmates deserve proper medical. The namesake “bad guys” in this book are allowed to exist because their work puts black men behind bars, not in spite of it. If Shane Bauer or Bryan Stevenson was in charge, Robert Scott would have gotten treatment on day one of him asking for help, but because the prison didn’t give him any help, he is now suing the prison. Mississippi wouldn’t allow quack science to convict the wrong people if white citizens primarily bore the burden. The bigotry in our criminal justice system is one of its key features, not an unfortunate bug. … Instead, Hayne could be described more as an opportunist.” But no one has described Hayne as a racist. There’s also no question that the system’s problems continue to disproportionately affect minority and poor populations across the state. The authors propose an answer: “There’s no question that Hayne and West thrived in a system that was created and honed during Jim Crow, and that for decades was used to reinforce the segregated social order.
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