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To: Bill who wrote (4044)	3/21/2002 4:49:31 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

"You can't handle the truth. The system works and each of your posts prove it." You are getting more and more ridiculous, LOL!! Message 17229263 HA HA!! "But there is another sense in which these cases illustrate the inadequacies of the system. These men were found innocent despite the system and only as a result of extraordinary efforts not generally available to death row defendants. Indeed, in some cases, these men were found innocent as a result of sheer luck. In the case of Walter McMillian, his volunteer outside counsel had obtained from the prosecutors an audio tape of one of the key witnesses' statements incriminating Mr. McMillian. After listening to the statement, the attorney flipped the tape over to see if anything was on the other side. It was only then that he heard the same witness complaining that he was being pressured to frame Mr. McMillian. [17] With that fortuitous break, the whole case against Johnny D. began to fall apart. Similarly, proving the innocence of Kirk Bloodsworth was more a matter of chance than the orderly working of the appeals' process. Only a scientific breakthrough, and an appellate lawyer's initiative in trying it, after years of failed appeals, allowed Bloodsworth to prove his innocence. And even then, the prosecutor was not bound under Maryland law to admit this new evidence. [18] Furthermore, not every death row inmate is afforded, after conviction, the quality of counsel and resources which Walter McMillian and Federico Macias were fortunate to have during their post-conviction proceedings. Many of those on death row go for years without any attorney at all. In the meantime... Message 17228187 You must be a masochist. You have posted this silly link several times claiming that N. Carolina instituted the Death Penalty in 1995 and trying to make the slight drop for that one year significant. Well, it was significant all right if you want it to be! N. Carolina re-instituted the death penalty on June 1, 1977!!! In 1978 the rate went up...!! (Good Lord, Bill! Get outside and throw the ball around, or something! ;-) ) The States without a death penalty have a far lower murder rate than do the others. Maybe you ought to just stop your silliness...