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When a Prosecutor Tries to Knowingly Send an Innocent Man to His Death, It's Nice to Play a Small Role in Enforcing the Law
See quote from my old reporting below:
Former prosecutor said to lie about confession
BY FRANK GREEN, Media General News Service, Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Email this Blog entryWrongly Convicted, Almost Executed, Awarded $2.25 Million
Here's an article about yesterday's jury award of $2.25 million to Earl Washington, whom the state of Virginia came within days of killing for a crime he had been clumsily and obviously framed for. Washington is mentally retarded, poor, and black. White cops in Culpeper, Virginia, interrogated him and fed him information about the crime. They did not take notes for much of this interrogation, and then claimed that Washington knew things that only the killer could have known. But during the sections where they did take notes, they fed him information, and generally when they didn't, he got things wrong. He was guessing and trying to please them, but he still usually got things wrong. Will the state of Virginia rethink its rule barring admittance of exculpating evidence found later (such as DNA)? Or will it, as the Innocence Project is urging, require the videotaping of all interrogations? Time will tell. This was certainly a long time coming.
