it s still not set aside, it still stands as a record of the court. that s probab;ly a little bit to do with my fault for example because i have a bit of a trust issue in setting that aside. i know the post office would like to say that side and i m sure we could work it out. they criminalise people, the people that went through terrible traumas in very similar circumstances possibly worse than my family. they re now looking to have those exonerations and moved forward as a batch. one of the things that have been been announced. that really concerns me, the minister, kevin hollinrake mentioned that some of these people will be guilty but they all need to sign a document to say that they committed no offence, and i worry about that. having talked to many of my friends
the criminalised people, the people that went through terrible, terrible traumas in very similar of not worse circumstances than my family, are now looking to have those exonerations pushed and moved forward as a batch. but one of the things that s been announced that really concerns me is the fact that the minister, kevin hollinrake, has mentioned the fact that some of these people will be guilty, but they will be all asked to sign a document to say that they committed no offence. and i worry about that. i think having talked to many of my friends who were victims of this, to say that some of the people were guilty, if you were in a room of a 100 people and someone said that two of them were thieves, how would you react to the other 98? and i find that really, really difficult. i don t understand why that caveat needs to be there. i don t understand why we ve got into this situation and i don t
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talking now, you know, over 100,000 people in prison for crimes they didn t commit. that is deeply troubling if you care about truth and justice. is anybody getting it right? well, philadelphia. they have had, larry krasner s office. in queens, i applaud this work. they hired a former attorney from the innocence project who is leading up the conviction integrity unit. so in my view, it s not a coincidence that that office is having more exonerations. most is just one of their prosecutors who suddenly is in charge of actually policing essentially themselves. so in the smaller counties that we don t hear about, it s injustice being compounded with this false pretense of review and people are getting buried, ignored. my mailbox is full of letters from people in prison begging to get their cases looked at. i look at as many as i can. we find a complete picture of truth and in a few cases achieve you jupz. but working with conviction integrity units as they exist