Shame on Colorado's Judicial System
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Tim Masters is free. Finally. After 10 years serving for a crime he didn't commit. Gail Schoettler's commentary today sums it up quite nicely.
Without due process, and with behind the scenes withholdings and back room deals, how can justice really be served? And how, given the number of people who have been put to death for crimes they didn't commit, can we continue to use the death penalty as a means of justice.
It's deplorable and wrong.
Tim Master's will never regain the 10 years of his life he missed during the years he served, but hopefully something good will come out of this fiasco. Like an overhaul of our justice system. A rethinking of how we determine one's guilt. A more thorough use of DNA evidence.
