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US public opinion on miscarriages of justice.

  • 26-07-2024 4:06pm
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    https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/24/us/missouri-christopher-dunn-released/index.html

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/missouri-supreme-court-blocks-release-man-jailed-30-years-murder-convi-rcna163587

    From the NBC article:

    'Dunn’s attorney, Justin Bonus, said his team was working to respond to the attorney general’s motion.'

    From the CNN article:

    'Steven Puro, professor emeritus of political science at St. Louis University, said Bailey is in a highly competitive race for the attorney general position with the primary quickly approaching on August 6.

    “Bailey is trying to show that he is quote, tough on crime, which is a very important Republican conservative position. Clearly, he’s angering members of the judicial system that he will have to argue before in the future. But he’s making the strategic notion that he needs to get his name before the voters and try to use that to win the primary election.”

    Michael Wolff, a former Missouri Supreme Court judge and chief justice, concurred with Puro’s observation, saying the handling of the case appears to be influenced by politics, also noting that the primary is quickly approaching.

    “Does Aug. 6 have anything to do with it?” he asked.'

    One would have assumed that miscarriage of justices in the US and in other Western countries cause a public outcry, regardless of voters' political preferences - and I'm aware that prosecutors at local and state levels in the US are elected.

    So why does Missouri attorney general Andrew Bailey, who is a Republican, regard it as being in his interest ahead of the Aug. 6 primary not to accept that innocent people have been put in prison?

    Surely, even the most right-wing Republican voters in the US would not regard it as acceptable to keep wrongfully-convicted people in prison, would they?



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