North Carolina crime lab analysts manipulated evidence

WOW, potentially 230 cases down the drain. Thats a lot of victims and victim families screwed over just so you can get conviction. No to mention anyone innecent that went to jail

 

I don't know about murder, but at the very least, in the cases of the three exectued prisoners, it's got to be voluntary manslaughter. To intentionally alter evidence, knowing that the death penalty might be the result? Yeah, these guys should be put away for life without parole. Let them see how it feels.

 

Crazy stuff.

 

I'd be curious to see who's reviewing them and how long it takes to review. It would suck if local district attorneys trying to be tough on crime to win elections just ignore this.

At the very minimum, every one of these people deserves a new trial ASAP because the reality is that the cases no longer were proven beyond reasonable doubt. If nothing else, there is reasonable doubt here.

 

This is disgusting. If the whole idea of law in America is based on 'justice' then what does this say?

This is petty evil, small little bureaucrats who, given a certain modicum of power, immediately abuse that power - they probably all had hard-ons when they falsified evidence, went home to their wives and 2.5 kids and bragged about how awesome they were at work.

This, to me, is the kind of institutionalized evil that should be punished even more severely that equivalent crimes that take place outside of government - these people were given the responsibility to carry out one of the most important duties in our society and they jacked-off all over it.

They should be sentenced to death. All of them. These are the truly heinous criminals of America - not some guy who steals a car or breaks into a house, but the petty bureaucrats who spend most of their lives being untouchable and can't even handle the responsibility of the tiniest sliver of power without immediately failing to live up to it, choosing instead to abuse it for their own little perverse sense of self - "look how powerful I am! I used to be a mediocre nobody, but now look how much power I have! I can ruin someone's life just by signing a piece of paper! I have such a boner right now! I just sent an innocent man to the electric chair!"