“What a wonderful system we’ve created” said United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. “Even when a state court is wrong in convicting somebody, so long as they are reasonably wrong, we uphold them.”
That really says a lot about how broken our laws and justice system are. What I say to justice Sotomayor and our lawmakers is to change how you review these cases. If the state courts are wrong, do not uphold them. Lawmakers, fix the laws that allow wrongful convictions in state courts. Fix the AEDPA and allow federal courts more discretion to overturn wrongful state decisions. #wrongfullyconvicted #aedpa #ussupremecourt #standup4innocence #fixtheaedpa
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