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The Supreme Court’s latest opinion means innocent people must remain in prison (www.vox.com)
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Clarence Thomas’s majority opinion ensures that innocent people will spend years behind bars.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Left-leaning justices have long argued that the criminal justice system should primarily try to determine whether a criminal defendant has actually committed a crime — and that there should be adequate safeguards to ensure that someone who is wrongfully convicted can challenge that conviction.

Meanwhile, justices on the Court’s rightward fringe have long argued that the primary purpose of the criminal justice system is to reach final judgments concerning an individual’s guilt. Under this view, this need for finality can even overcome a claim that a prisoner is innocent.

I really can't emphasize this enough: fuck the right.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What? I... I literally cannot get my head around how that thought process can work