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General Topics => Legal and Activism => Topic started by: punaperson on June 09, 2017, 06:58:04 AM
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This corruption isn't anything new or rare. Just a reminder (about how the "justice system" really works). Our sworn-oath "public servants" out there to "protect and serve". And they get to carry guns. There are hundreds and thousands of cases of corrupt cops fabricating evidence. I guess we just have to hope it doesn't happen to us. Twenty-five years is a long time. Kinda sucks.
Man Free After Serving 25 Years for Murder Linked to Switched Bullets
The Detroit Crime Lab, shut down in 2008 for negligence, switched test bullets with autopsy bullets in order to convict Desmond Ricks.
http://reason.com/blog/2017/06/09/switched-bullets-lead-to-1992-second-deg
After 25 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, charges against Desmond Ricks have been dropped. The Michigan Innocence Clinic showed that his 1992 conviction was based on fraudulent evidence contrived by Detroit law enforcement reported, The Detroit News.
Unfortunately, Ricks' case may just be the tip of the iceberg. According to Moran, the Detroit police violated the Constitution frequently in the 1990s by inventing false confessions or arresting and holding witnesses until they implicated a defendant. While the Wayne County Prosecutors Office received a grant to look into other cases that the Detroit Crime Lab may have mishandled, they only searched back to 2003. Moran intends to ask the Michigan Attorney General to launch a full independent investigation into convictions based on crime lab analysis.