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The truth took 15 years to come out. That's 15 years that Simon, now 64, spent behind bars."
"Believe me, it is mentally painful to walk around every day, locked up for something that you know you didn't do," Simon told Shawn Rech, whose film about the case, "A Murder in the Park" now has an ending. It premieres at a film festival in New York on Nov. 17. (read the whole thing)
They story of how a good thing, helping to release innocent men from prison, was turned into the nightmare it was supposed to avert. How the "innocent project" sent an innocent man to prison.
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There is no good idea that fanatics can't make into an evil.
When it comes to the overreaching scope of government and my hatred for it, I'm a fanatic, but I will not support cheating nor violating peoples rights to get my way. You have to respect some basic rules when pushing your agenda. That was the purpose and genius of the simple Constitution that the founders gave us. It never stops amazing me how well it can keep us on the path of decency if we just insist on following it. It's also perennially disappointing how people with good intentions don't get that. Keep your head people, and respect the genius that this country was blessed with right at the start. It's the most consistently proven guide to decency and fairness in human history. Respect it's authority - it earned it.
The Innocence Project means that we'll trade your innocent ass for someone who is guilty that we just happen to like.
Seems to me The Innocence Project ought to stick with its core competency, which is filing its standard boilerplate petition that requests DNA re-testing of all the evidence to be compared to a national database.
The reasoning seems that any DNA found from anyone other than the petitioner compels vacating the judgment of sentence.
The Innocence project was never about innocence. It was always about ending the death penalty.
The do-gooders did what again?
I'm imagining Protess and Ciolino sitting there smugly certain in the righteousness of their actions. They got what they wanted: permanent change. And all they had to do was pervert justice so not only innocence pays, but an actual murderer goes scott free, possibly to kill again, and again, and again, la la la, it's all about their own vision of justice.
Were legal gun owners 1/10 as vicious, violent, and non thinking as they're made out to be then BANG! both these men would be already dead, and with their murderers feeling the same righteous justification. Along with several others in positions of power that use it to impose their own take on justice.
Short of that, I do hope Simon sues all three, Northwest, Protess and Ciolino for all that they're worth and beyond. My fervent hope is their lives are made miserable until the end of their days.
Has there been any response form the Innocence Project?
'Too bad, so sad?'
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