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I saw a documentary on 4 black men who were charged with murder/rape on a white college girl. There was no hard evidence saying they did it but they were in the area when it happened and the detective in charge of the case was risking his career on getting a conviction. So they basically made the police department as a whole work on the case until they could sway a jury into believing the 4 men did it.
Well that was in the 1980s before DNA evidence was a huge thing in crime. For the entire duration of their sentence, the 4 men begged that they were innocent. Of course no one believed them because the police department really got them good this time!!!!!!!!
A lady who does non-profit DNA work for people who claim innocence before DNA testing (possibly the same as gucc mentioned) took their case and ran DNA testing on the evidence of their hearing and guess what? All 4 of them innocent without a doubt. They each served TWENTY YEARS in prison on something they didn't do, didn't have a part of, just got locked up one day and now 20 years of their life is gone.
One of the men was like 16 when imprisoned. 36 when he got out.
This case blew my mind and I can't believe that it really happened. I hope the same doesn't happen to this teacher.
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