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Senseless Imprisonment

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That's the title of an editorial in today's Dallas Morning News, a follow-up on Diane Jennings revisiting of the Chris Ochoa & Richard Danziger exonerations.  LINK The Christopher Ochoa case should be required reading for state lawmakers ? and for anyone who thinks the criminal justice system is ever good enough. It wasn't good enough for Mr. Ochoa. It wasn't good enough to avert the cruel irony that he went to prison based on his own false confession. The portrait of the senseless Ochoa case, as depicted in an article by Dallas Morning News reporter Diane Jennings, illustrates how illusory justice can be.     As if plucked out of thin air, a 22-year-old Mr. Ochoa ended up in an Austin police interrogation room in connection with a brutal rape and murder in 1988...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 27, 2008 (boomark / email).