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Pastimes : THE SLIGHTLY MODERATED BOXING RING

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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (3553)3/19/2002 9:03:55 PM
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Some representative cases,

all from aclu.org

(but there are many other sites with cases listed, if you search.)

(I'll post one at a time so they aren't so hard to read.)

In 1985, in Maryland, Kirk Bloodsworth was sentenced to death for rape and murder, despite the testimony of alibi witnesses. In 1986 his conviction was reversed on grounds of withheld evidence pointing to another suspect; he was retried, re-convicted, and sentenced to life in prison. In 1993, newly available DNA evidence proved he was not the rapist-killer, and he was released after the prosecution dismissed the case. A year later he was awarded $300,000 for wrongful punishment.
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