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A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2026
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"They had similar usernames, he's probably a pedophile too, he deserved his sentence and I'll lock him up again if his name crosses my desk. He's on thin ice."
Yeah this is pretty much the standard excuse prosecutors use when years later it turns out the guy they convicted was innocent.