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>>If you take a random sampling of 100 situations where there exists facts similar to this case, I think you’d find that 95%+ of the time the accused really did commit the murder.

That's 5 innocent people sentenced per hundred people to death/prison for a crime they didn't commit.

That is a lot.

In many cases for the innocent, the trial itself is a big punishment.




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