Supreme Court Rules 'Innocence Isn't Enough

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Doesn't have anything to do with firearms or recent shootings but SCOTUS recently said that It doesn't matter if you're innocent, If the state convicted you and you got the death penalty they can still execute you.
Supreme Court Rules 'Innocence Isn't Enough' To Overturn Black Man's Conviction Of Murder
"Know this: Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it is perfectly Constitutional to imprison and execute people, *even those who have evidence of their innocence & inadequate counsel."; Scott Hechinger.
https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-ru ... 46605.html

So even if your state appointed counsel was incompetent, didn't introduce exculpatory evidence, did not call experts witnesses to refute the prosecutions testimony, and the jury convicted you, too bad. You can't introduce new evidence that shows you are innocent. Huh? WTF?

Who wrote this crap?: Who else; Thomas.
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In a state where eight people have been exonerated from death row, Arizona prosecutors have fought against reopening Jones’s case, even as the basis for his conviction has fallen apart. As his defense attorneys argue, “Jones was convicted based on a very specific timeline, which was grounded on a single factual premise: that Rachel was fatally injured and sexually assaulted while she was alone with Jones on portions of Sunday, May 1, 1994.” The total time frame was no longer than four hours, during which Jones was seen taking the child on short trips in his van. But several medical experts hired by defense attorneys have concluded that Rachel’s fatal injury could not possibly have occurred within the narrow window presented by the state.

More significant still, in a recent letter to Jones’s lawyers, the Arizona Attorney General’s Office conceded that the current Pima County medical examiner “did not dispute the conclusions of your experts.” And the forensic pathologist who took the stand against Jones in 1995 has acknowledged that his testimony was flawed. Jones’s attorneys are certain that if the case were tried again, “no juror acting reasonably would ever find Jones guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”
https://theintercept.com/2017/10/23/bar ... chel-gray/

The prime reason we need to get rid of the death penalty and change it to life in prison. Our adversarial system of justice is not justice, it is highly flawed.
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"Kill them all. The Lord will know His own!"
"Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius." is a phrase reportedly spoken by the commander of the Albigensian Crusade, prior to the massacre at Béziers on 22 July 1209.... Papal legate and Cistercian abbot Arnaud Amalric was the military commander of the Crusade in its initial phase and leader of this first major military action of the Crusade, the assault on Béziers, and was reported by Caesarius of Heisterbach to have uttered the order.[1]
And most of the 6 are devout RCC members. Scalia was Opus Dei, about as reactionary and fanatical as Catholicism can get.
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YankeeTarheel wrote: Fri May 27, 2022 1:41 pm "Kill them all. The Lord will know His own!"
"Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius." is a phrase reportedly spoken by the commander of the Albigensian Crusade, prior to the massacre at Béziers on 22 July 1209.... Papal legate and Cistercian abbot Arnaud Amalric was the military commander of the Crusade in its initial phase and leader of this first major military action of the Crusade, the assault on Béziers, and was reported by Caesarius of Heisterbach to have uttered the order.[1]
And most of the 6 are devout RCC members. Scalia was Opus Dei, about as reactionary and fanatical as Catholicism can get.
The biggest problem I see in our Supreme Court is that too many are religious. It should not be the basis of selection, it should be the basis of deselection when one group is over represented.
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We should have an equal balance of religions that represent the percentage of that population of the US on the Supreme Court. Moslem, Hindi, Buddhist, Protestant, Catholic, Hebrew, etc. With no more than two members of the same religion.
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TrueTexan wrote: Fri May 27, 2022 2:38 pm We should have an equal balance of religions that represent the percentage of that population of the US on the Supreme Court. Moslem, Hindi, Buddhist, Protestant, Catholic, Hebrew, etc. With no more than two members of the same religion.
That would a start if there was at least one agnostic in the bunch.
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Yup Kennedy was the first Catholic president and Biden is the second. There was a lot of opposition to Kennedy from conservative protestant churches. Kennedy's famous statement.
“[C]ontrary to common newspaper usage, I am not the Catholic candidate for president,” Kennedy said on live TV in his now famous address. “I am the Democratic Party's candidate for president, who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters, and the church does not speak for me.”
https://www.history.com/news/jfk-catholic-president

The conservative, some say reactionary Catholics on SCOTUS have impacted their decisions. Plus the obsession of presidents in selecting only Ivy League law school graduates, Biden first and could be only pick is the same. Barrett is the exception.
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