you're innocent, why would you even need a hearing? >> i think you have to go back to context, your honor. >> we have to deal with the clear meaning of the statute. i understand your context argument, but we still have to deal with the clear language of the statute. >> it comes out of a mind-set that says our job as prosecutors is just to make sure that everybody we prosecute is convicted, everybody we sentence to death is killed. this is a wrestling match, and to the death, and we've got to make sure that we come out on top in each instance. >> the legislature in its wisdom recognized that the criminal justice system, like all human endeavors sometimes is flawed. but the attorney general has taken the position that the criminal justice system is free of error, and therefore is effectively divine. i quote from their brief in the circuit court. the state does not shrink from echols' charge that relief may never be granted under this view of the statute, its view, but
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