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A Perfect Game: The Criminal Justice System

By Brian Tannebaum, Esq.

Bud Selig did the right thing. Sometimes life sucks and you get screwed. You don't go back and change things.It's too easy to compare the missed call that robbed Armando Gallaraga of only the 21st game in Major League Baseball's history to the criminal justice system, but what the hell.Gallaraga pitched a perfect game. The replay shows it, the ump admits it, even Jason Donald, the hitter called "safe" admits it.Gallaraga pitched a perfect game.But we will write down that he didn't. He will receive no credit for this perfect game. According to the law, it never happened.My friend who made the quote at the beginning of this post makes the point. He's got support. Yes it happened, but sometimes the law steps in and poof, it didn't happen. Any criminal defense lawyer who felt his client was wrongly convicted, has stood at sentencing and heard the judge and prosecutor say over and over again "but the jury found him guilty...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Defense on June 04, 2010 (boomark / email).