tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961411431611631367.post817865270205953958..comments2023-08-08T04:21:46.695-07:00Comments on JOSH MARQUIS: Counting the GuiltyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961411431611631367.post-45662339617033991412008-05-01T20:53:00.000-07:002008-05-01T20:53:00.000-07:00Actually Gross' cases included murder, quite a...Actually Gross' cases included murder, quite a few rape and molestation and other serious felonies. If you read my original post you'll see if we assume he's undercounted by a magnitude of 11 times and then divide 4000 into JUST forcible rapes and murder from 89-03 we still have an error rate of .027 of 1 percent.<br>Aside from cases like Tulia there are relatively few "exonerated innocents" in on drug offenses. Maybe people who are locked up for way too long or inappropraitely but that is diffent than the idea of an INNOCENT person getting locked up for a crime they had nothing to do with. It happens, but not as much as BOSTON LEGAL would have us think.Joshhttp://coastda.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1961411431611631367.post-10593273186134354682008-05-02T13:51:00.000-07:002008-05-02T13:51:00.000-07:00"Aside from cases like Tulia"?Well, asid..."Aside from cases like Tulia"?<br><br>Well, aside from cases of exonerated innocent people, there are few exonerations to speak of - that's just tautology.<br><br>In Texas, DNA cases make headlines but FAR more exonerees have come from drug cases since the turn of the century I'm not speaking here of unfairly long sentences, but of actual innocence. It's not even close - most of the exonerations come in the drug war, not violent crime. But the MSM and academia don't want to count anything, for some reason, but murders and rapes.Gritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.com