Aug 20, 2004
Travesty of Justice
How on Earth did it take forty years to figure out that this fellow was railroaded?
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Now they get you to "confess" to things you didn't do by threatening to charge you with a horrendous crime if you don't accept a plea bargain.
And life imprisonment for robbery? Even if guilty, that hardly seems just if nobody was killed or seriously hurt.