Guilt as a game for lawyers

For years I’ve been irritated that the criminal justice system is often more intersted in convictions than convicting the guilty.

A Slate article makes this point about the “adversarial” aspect of the system:

There are times when neither the prosecution nor the defense is particularly interested in discovering the truth.

Remember this the next time you read about an innocent convict having the men and women who put him jail object to reopening the case. I think this would make a darned good law. Require that all DNA evidence be automatically analyzed. That would, of course, mean more funding for crime labs. CIS Minnesota here we come.

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