T.A.N.J.!

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Gato_Solo

Out-freaking-standing OTC member
There Ain't No Justice...;)

In an October decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit voted, 8-7, not only to affirm Paul Gregory House's 1986 rape-murder conviction but also to keep him on Tennessee's death row, despite subsequent knowledge that the prosecutor's primary evidence was faulty. The eight judges accepted the conviction, even though the rape evidence was based, nearly archaically, on a match of blood "type" in semen found on the victim; much more sophisticated DNA testing later showed that the semen was not from House but from the victim's estranged husband (who, it was subsequently learned, allegedly "confessed" the crime to three witnesses, evidence that was too belatedly offered to satisfy the majority judges). [New York Times, 10-7-04]
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Or is it more News of the Wierd? :grinyes:
 
Sounds like Reuters: take something that's really not funny, and file it under "oddly enough." Someone gets convicted of a crime in Iran and will be thrown off a cliff in a burlap sack as punishment? Oddly enough! Two neighbors shoot and kill each other in a duel? Oddly enough!
 
Kind of like this story (same source)

The man arrested for attempting to strangle another to death in Livingston, Mont., in August: 35-year-old Vincent Murders. And the bar that was closed down in August in an Hispanic neighborhood of Houston because it was widely believed to be an open drug and prostitution market: the Blo-N-Go cantina. [Livingston Enterprise, 8-10-04] [Houston Chronicle, 8-25-04]
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