Reply #31: There have been numerous examples [View All]

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of persons convicted of murder or rape that everyone "knew was guilty" which later, most famously by DNA evidence, were found to have in fact been innocent. How would you feel if you were a defendant in that situation? Would you want to be defended or would you want your lawyer to say "Well this one looks pretty bad, so I'll just go through the motions."? The point of course is not that these examples are common, they are not. The point is we can't have two kinds of justice, one for those that might be innocent and one for those that clearly are not, because as human beings we sometimes learn that what seemed obvious may not be.