"Video helps clear convict of abuse after 21 years"

[KansasVoter]

Stories like this makes is so obvious that our criminal justice system is messed up! Sad story! I hope he does sue!

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He was 19, working as an assistant at a day care center, when his life went completely off the rails. Now he is a middle-aged man with a smoker's cough, newly in charge of what's left of his life, working as a landscaper in Boston.

In the early 1980s, as an openly gay high school dropout in a blue-collar Massachusetts town, he was accused of molesting the children in his care. The country was gripped by a series of panic-fueled day care sex scandals. He was convicted and sentenced to three concurrent life terms.

There was evidence in his favor — hours of videotaped interviews with the children — but jurors, Baran and his attorney never saw all of them.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32341725/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

[NYC_SKP]

1. Thank goodness it wasn't a death penalty case.

Nothing makes me angrier than institutionalized misjustice like this.

[rhett o rick]

2. Right Wing Authoritarians feel better when there are prosecutions. Justice is irrelevant.

Ask Nancy Grace.

[BlooInBloo]

3. Sigh.