"If he was not guilty, he would not be in prison," so the argument goes about inmates. And yet, DNA evidence frees two or more innocent prisoners each month in the United States of America. But, the great majority of the wrongly convicted cannot make use of this forensic science because there is none to test or for other reasons. African-American Vincent Simmons is one of them. In 1977, white minor twin sisters reported a "black man" had raped them. Before the police made a proper investigation, they arrested Simmons without probable cause, put him in an illegal line-up, and shot him almost...
"If he was not guilty, he would not be in prison," so the argument goes about inmates. And yet, DNA evidence frees two or more innocent prisoners each...