Criminal
Apr. 3, 2015
Ending prosecutorial unaccountability
In state and federal courts today, there is prosecutorial wrongdoing aplenty, and next to nothing is ever done about it. "Stacking" charges; withholding evidence; relying on "junk science," and so on are examples. By Dan Lawton
Tim Atkins is an African-American man from Los Angeles. For 20 years, he lived in State prison, after a jury convicted him of murdering Vicente Gonzalez in 1987. Atkins was innocent. The California Innocence Project proved it, in 2007. Judge Michael Tynan of the Los Angeles Superior Court declared Atkins "factually innocent" and apologized to him in open court before releasing him. The prosecutor whose office had ruined Tim's life was ...
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