The Exoneration Hustle

Experienced law enforcement officials are growing concerned that progressive prosecutors are freeing guilty murderers in their rush to enforce their own politics of decarceration and equity.

A progressive prosecutor is elected in Bam's hometown.

So the progressive prosecutor simply sends investigators out to ask the eyewitnesses if it is possible that they misidentified Bam as the shooter.

If the prosecutor is admitting that there was police/prosecutorial misconduct or ineffective assistance of counsel, who will challenge her judgment? Bam's current defense lawyer will happily accept the concession.

The final step in the exoneration hustle is to find a supposedly impartial outside authority to support the progressive prosecutor's claim of innocence.

The motivation of progressive prosecutors for falsely exonerating criminals is the same motivation that might drive an overly aggressive prosecutor to convict defendants falsely: electoral pressures.

A gung-ho prosecutor may be responding to her law-and-order base, especially when she promised to "Lock up the bad guys." A progressive prosecutor may be responding to her reform-minded electoral base, particularly when she promised on the campaign trail to free scores of defendants allegedly wrongfully convicted by her predecessors or the police.

• The headline is becoming more common: "Innocent Man Freed After Decades in Jail for Murder!"
• As a matter of statistical probabilities, it must be true that some innocent defendants are convicted.
• But experienced law enforcement officials are growing concerned that progressive prosecutors are freeing guilty murderers in their rush to enforce their own politics of decarceration and equity.

 

https://www.city-journal.org/the-exoneration-hustle?wallit_nosession=1