General Discussion

Being from the South, and having heard stories of unjustly "convicted" of people, mostly minority men, languishing in jails for years or even decades for crimes they didn't commit, if a more enlightened judge/governor/president should be presented with such a case, and it seems obvious that to wait for the wheels of "justice" to slowly grind to the same conclusion of innocence would be cruel and unusual, I'd say that in such a case, a pardon should be granted immediately, and accepted just as quickly. Let the paperwork and the evidence turned up by the local Innocence Project continue, but any legal procedure that frees a wrongly convicted innocent is correct, and it implies by no means an admission of guilt.