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Old 06-08-2008, 10:06 PM #18
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Originally posted by Tom
But thats not the case at all. There have been a couple of high profile cases this year where people have been imprisoned for years for a crime they didn't commit. If you're on your own and have no alibi, you can just fit the aesthetic description and be sent to prison whether you did it or not. The government are too busy with meeting targets and closing cases even if its the wrong result, to the government that case is just a statistic.
I was not saying I agreed with that, just that that seems to be the way it is
Oh I know otherwise it wouldn't have been in quotation marks. I was just expanding on what its supposed to be thats all.
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