, saying justice is not only about punishing the guilty but protecting the innocent. She also said she supported the formation of a Conviction Integrity Unit and a Sentencing Review Board to look into other potentially flawed cases.
“A conviction integrity review is a non-adversarial process that seeks cooperation from prosecutors, defenders and police,” said Scheck, who is an expert in best practices in conviction integrity and will guide the panel on the process. “Best practices today include consideration of excessive sentences as well as a review of guilt or innocence and the fairness of the trial.”
Many members of the state’s African American community feel the system is stacked against them, from the time of their arrest to the charges and the courts, to the length of their sentences.A largely discredited theory about a remorseless, teen criminals — dubbed “superpredators” — resulted in a tripling of the number of youths thrown in adult facilities, thousands of them sentenced to life. The vast majority were African American.
Unbelievable
Myon Burrell is a bloods gangster who killed an 11 year old girl while trying to shoot a rival gang member. Let him rot in jail.
Hey AP, how about you spend any time let alone a year investigating your own biased reporting, I mean opinion?
A life sentence for a stray bullet is all one needs to know that this is a grave miscarriage of justice.
OJ's lawyer is representing him LOL. Minneapolis will be a no-go zone soon. Antifa and BLM are in their way to police the city
Exactly what is a stray bullet?
So now killing someone is a “stray bullet”
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