Reply #8: One feels bad... that he was released (even though he is innocent) [View All]

[salin]

the other feels bad... that the dna showed he didn't do it (what - you wished he had done it?) Absolutely NO feeling bad for a man who spent 17 years in jail, for a crime he did not commit. My guess is that they don't want to be bothered feeling guilty. That is how callous we have become as a society. Instead of trying to sort through how it happened (gee, was a 2 hour deliberation enough? Especially when there were so many witnesses that countered the story?), and feeling some regret, and then trying to sort through dealing with the guilt and coming to acceptance, they seem to wish he had been guilty.

Even if they do not feel bad for this man, aren't they even concerned that in a hasty conviction that the real rapist was out there... likely to strike again?

How disturbing. The below snip is from the linked article:
Shirley Wegforth said, "I don't know if (releasing him) was the right thing to do. I don't remember a lot. It was so long ago. But no, I don't have a guilty feeling about putting him away."

Another juror, Violet Hansen, said: "We found him guilty off of everything that we heard. It took us about two hours, and I think we all agreed at that time. I thought from the beginning that he was guilty. I feel kind of sad (that the DNA evidence found he was innocent)."