Maurice Hastings served 38 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. We should make sure that doesn't happen again.
. There is no amount of money that can make up for that incalculable loss.
The data on the numbers of wrongfully incarcerated — mostly Black men — are staggering. The 2017 documentary film “Long Shot” details one case where both law enforcement and an overly zealous prosecutor were determined to convict an innocent man of a crime that video evidence showed he couldn’t possibly have committed.
What we owe Hastings is a deeply felt, full and total commitment to the reformation of the criminal justice system, so that police investigations and trials are about finding the truth, not just closing cases and adding victory notches to prosecutors’ belts.When Los Angeles County Dist. Atty.
The district attorney’s office deserves zero credit for freeing Hastings. It routinely refuses requests to retest DNA and review other exculpatory evidence. It is the work of the Innocence Project that overcomes prosecutors’ refusals and eventually frees the wrongfully convicted.
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