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By Steve Hall

Today's Orlando Sentinel carries the editorial, "Commission can reduce wrongful convictions with legislative support."Sprinkled throughout the U.S. Constitution is the notion that accused criminals are to be treated fairly and justly.A high ideal in theory, but too often dogged by judicial breakdowns in practice. When that happens, the system locks up someone like James Bain. He received a life sentence for the 1974 rape of a 9-year-old Lake Wales boy. Only he didn't do the crime. After serving 35 years, Mr. Bain finally tasted freedom in December after DNA testing exonerated him.Tragically, Mr. Bain's plight isn't uncommon in Florida. At long last, however, it appears the state intends to do more to prevent such miscarriages of justice than simply hoping truth will win the day...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 03, 2010 (boomark / email).