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by talldatethrow 1046 days ago
Oh yes, thousands of murders a year dismissed by clever lawyers! Thousands!
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shadowgovt 1046 days ago
The scarier possibility is "thousands of wrongful convictions due to ineffective representation."

... scarier and hard to discount.

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chii 1046 days ago
And it is imho better for 9 murderers to walk free and prevent 1 wrongful conviction, than to have 1 wrongful conviction to keep 9 murderers off the streets.
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