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Civil Liberties

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1. Recantation of witnesses can be iffy

Fri Sep 30, 2022, 02:17 PM

Sep 2022

Absent other evidence, if recantation by witnesses was enough, then a strategy becomes obvious.

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Why is it so hard to free wrongfully convicted people from prison? [View all] ck4829 Sep 2022 OP

Recantation of witnesses can be iffy Effete Snob Sep 2022 #1

once convicted, it usually takes a pardon or commutation to get released.... getagrip_already Sep 2022 #2

TY, painful truth. quaint Sep 2022 #3