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Originally posted by onetime2
"Could have been" but wasn't. To ignore the overwhelming circumstantial evidence would have been derelict. While "making excuses doesn't change that" creating imaginary "could have beens" doesn't change what actually happened.
The man had bad luck because of all the circumstantial evidence. In the end he was cleared. Sounds like a good outcome to me. But hey, why not take it to the next imaginary level and say "he could have been executed as a traitor"? There more evidence of how evil our law enforcement system is.
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It was bad luck for him, incompetence on the part of the fbi. It shouldn't have happened. The only people who took it to an imaginary level were the fingerprint analysts at the fbi and they're probably going to get a well deserved black eye because of it. Circumstantial evidence should be irrelevent when your only direct evidence is flawed, especially when the people who gave you that evidence tell you that you've got a false match. In the end, justice prevailed, but don't pretend for a minute that law enforcement arrogance can't go a lot farther than it did with this fellow especially in tense times such as these.