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The betting before Tuesday was that Walton would not use that discretion to give Libby such a long sentence, since in doing so, he would be giving too much weight to a mere suspicion of the underlying, unproven crime. But as Libby's sentence proved, in today's criminal justice...
So how is it that an offense that may never have happened - and that at one point the prosecutor argued was largely irrelevant to the case - has now increased Libby's criminal sentence?
DNA evidence, however, does not guarantee an individual's immediate exoneration. Prosecutors in Union County could re-try Halsey, although "it's inconceivable that there would be another trial in this case," Plotkin says. In most cases, the evidence is so convincing that prosecutors do not choose to hold a...
In Texas, with 153,000 inmates in the penal system, it is impossible to screen every piece of mail, says Michelle Lyons, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, and mail to and from attorneys and the media is privileged. Random screening does catch some illegal activity, which...
How can a crime that may never have happened - and that at one point the prosecutor argued was largely irrelevant to the case - now increase a criminal sentence?