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I worked on several innocence cases like this – where prosecutors refused to run a fingerprint through the database even tho it would have cost nothing and taken 5 minutes. And I had no legal right to force them to do it, so it was never was done. nytimes.com/2019/03/21/us/…
One of the biggest scandals of the criminal legal system is the impediments prosecutors put in front of people trying to prove their innocence post-conviction. Innocence Project cases often take 5-10 years because prosecutors put up endless roadblocks.
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