As we now are deep in a wave of true crime shit it is weird that the liberal medis was ahead of thr curve on this. We can probably safely assume that he didn't do it. However having a component lawyer probably wouldn't have helped so it was the best outcome. Then there was the state witness which was apparently the school drug dealer trying to avoid jail for possession. So that is perfectly on brand for law enforcement. The reporter totally banged when he got out right? Did they have another season after shitown? I kinda remember it just being a big city liberal in judgmental awe of thr lives of small town folk but I couldnt say I remember more than that
Oh word? I remembered it being a toss up. I was using the rule of thumb that the cops are making shit up. Was that in the text or did that come out after?
It sorta still is a toss up. IIRC both cops on the investigation had histories of corruption, the story they convicted him with was physically impossible and by the end the only witness admitted to perjury. He may have still done it idk, but fuck if I would convict anyone on that.
I mean if cops having a history of corruption invalidated a case they'd have to shut down all the prisions for lack of occupation. Which, it should but you know.
I can say there was a lot of discussion in the couple years after the pod came out including follow up investigation by podcasters (not the best but w/e). By the time the dust eventually settled the consensus was pretty close to "guilty but the prosecution did a bad job". The pod also includes an appearance from the innocence project who are quoted with something like "we do our own investigation and fight for the wrongly imprisoned. If it turns out there's nothing there for us to fight for we just quietly move on to other things". Well they had an active investigation for a while, but nothing was ever heard from them...
That's pretty damning. It is weir dto try to hold the entire pocture in your mind of how the cops fucked up in multiple different and contradictory ways at the same time.
Doesn't the innocence project just focus on DNA slamdunks?
Maybe, it's not absolute proof in any case, there's more to it that you can find on the sub