The jury came to their verdict based on the evidence produced before them,with todays advancement of dna hopefully travesties of justice like this will not happen again,and when all probabilites of innocence are gone we can go back to hanging the murderous scum of this country.
Of course those probabilities will 'disappear' won't they?...
But just in case, Let's hope our 'clerks' are better than 'theirs'!
Authorities are reviewing hundreds of DNA tests at the Las Vegas police forensics lab following the discovery of a clerical error that placed an innocent man in jail for nearly a year....
Lazaro Sotolusson was scheduled to be tried in two sexual assaults involving juvenile victims. Seemingly conclusive DNA evidence formed the heart of the prosecution's case, and Sotolusson faced multiple life terms if convicted.
But prosecutors dismissed the charges Wednesday, acknowledging that the police lab accidentally had placed Sotolusson's name on another man's DNA sample.
"The problem is someone typed in the wrong name," Assistant District Attorney J. Charles Thompson said.
Lucky the error was spotted after only a year's imprisonment, but how many errors won't be?...
and that's without taking the possibility of 'planted DNA' into the equation...
Anything that involves human input is fallible...hence capital punishment should never return!
