American Justice

Jailed for 2 Decades in Rabbi’s Death, Unjustly, Prosecutors Say
By Michael Powell and Sharon Otterman
March 20, 2013
...Mr. Ranta could walk free as early as Thursday. In the decades since a jury convicted him of murder, nearly every piece of evidence in this case has fallen away. A key witness told The New York Times that a detective instructed him to select Mr. Ranta in the lineup. A convicted rapist told the district attorney that he falsely implicated Mr. Ranta in hopes of cutting a deal for himself. A woman has signed an affidavit saying she too lied about Mr. Ranta’s involvement....

Maybe it is time to stop seeing victory and justice in imprisonment. Just a thought.