A week after a three-alarm fire destroyed a Red Hook New York City Police Department warehouse that contained decades' worth of evidence, the Legal Aid
A man who pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree murder in the fiery mutilation of an Eastern Shore housemate loses federal ineffective-assistance appeal.
at the first sign of a badge trial or an unfair trial, then it ll sort of erode the integrity of the system. that s an illusion of integrity, that s an actual integrity. actual integrity is correct your mistakes, addressing mistakes. fixing these injustices. but the courts make it extremely difficult for people who are innocent to bring evidence, there is a phase in your trial or in your case called post conviction where this is when you get access to the police files in the prosecutors files. and this is where you re most likely to find evidence of your innocence that could establish or innocence. it s most likely we are likely to find plus misconduct and prosecutorial misconduct. but our system also means when you get to post conviction, that is the time of the courts are least likely to reopen your case. so as soon as you get access to all of this evidence that could potentially for you, the courts make it almost impossible for you to get back in. and when they do, it s piecemeal,
presumption of innocence to prioritizing the preserving the finality of the verdict. and the idea here is that we want to preserve jury verdicts, particularly guilty verdicts because if we let, if we start overturning them left and right at the first sign of a badge trial or an unfair trial, then it ll sort of erode the integrity of the system. i wrote in the column that that s an illusion of integrity, that s an actual integrity. actual integrity is correct your mistakes, addressing mistakes. fixing these injustices. but the courts make it extremely difficult for people who are innocent to bring evidence, there is a phase in your trial or in your case called post conviction where this is when you get access to the police files in the prosecutors files. and this is where you re most likely to find evidence of your innocence that could establish your innocence. it s most likely when you are