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Wednesday, June 27, 2001

The chances that a rapist will serve any time for his crime are 99-to-1

"Just the mention of DNA fosters doubts because people sincerely believe that our prisons are stuffed with innocent men, despite staggering evidence to the contrary."

Creative Loafing. Tina Trent writes that attempts to free Carlton Gary, convicted of raping and strangling seven elderly women, are mis-guided and contradictory to all the convincing evidence of his guilt. "In more than 10 years, the Innocence Project has freed a few dozen men from among millions convicted of crimes. And, while many of those freed are victims of injustice, at least one is back in prison already for committing another rape, and several are undisputedly guilty of other serious crimes. These are the very strongest cases the Innocence Project could come up with; some are tragic misidentifications, but others have more to do with minor trial errors than the 'actual innocence' of the defendants."'

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