Nice going once again, Texas

BOOOOOOOO!

I'm really glad this young man's name was cleared, but a fat lot of good that does him now. I hope his family sues the shit out of the state for wrongful imprisonment. No, Texas isn't the only place where this sort of thing happens, but it has become the shining example of what happens when law enforcement rushes to judgment. I don't necessarily believe that cops and prosecutors want to put people in prison for crimes they did not commit. However, I think especially in the cases of the poor and minorities, authorities are too quick to assign guilt and to attempt to make their evidence fit their case. Too often you hear cops and prosecutors saying they still believe they got the right man after someone has been exonerated. That unwillingness to admit mistakes even in the face of evidence to the contrary does not bode well. And then there are the assholes who decided that even if someone is innocent of one crime, the time he spent in prison wasn't really a waste because he was probably guilty of something. The number of times I saw that mantra during my CJ classes is astounding. Don't you feel great knowing people training to go into law enforcement now don't give two shits about the law?