So many of these cases where the supposed "good guys" get tunnel vision on a suspect they blatantly ignore evidence or any other suspects that come up. Some who straight up admit it, or even when there's DNA proving they did it. In one case like this the cops just said "oh well they must have helped [the original suspect] do it". They just can't admit they're wrong no matter what happens. And then when it's been proven they violated rights and falsely sentenced an innocent person there is no punishment for them. They just get to keep on doing their jobs and fuck people over.
In so many of those true crime podcasts and documentaries there's a situation like I described above; bad DA's, crooked cops, favoritism from a judge. In most of those cases there's often an overworked, underpaid defense attorney from the Public Defender's office busting their ass, pouring their heart and soul into a client who will probably not appreciated it. The shit that goes down in those true crime stories; regular people in bad situations getting their rights trampled... that shit happens every day in every county in the USA. I have joked before that you could make a Public Defender reality show or weekly podcast by just throwing a dart at a map, find the nearest public defender office and just take a production crew there for a week and you'd be guaranteed to have an entertaining show.
A big part of what is wrong with the justice system, aside from the racism which plays a major role in this particular case is prosecutors basically having no penalty or punishment for violating innocent people's rights and for generally putting them through hell. Many times ruining their lives. Technically there is a way to punish them, but no one realizes it because they're part of the problem. 
In our current system what's supposed to happen when a DA gets caught being shitty and breaking the law repeatedly, letting cases get retried because of mistrials or appeals finding prosecutorial misconduct, wasting tax payer money and wasting jurors time and keeping an innocent person in jail for lengthy periods of time is that they should get the blame for all of that. They should get publicly shamed and not re-elected to that position. But they don't because it happens every damn day there's no single case to focus on. Ultimately the general public doesn't understand how it works. They don't see the elected prosecutors doing a shitty job, they only see a criminal getting to have another case and blame it on a tricky defense attorney, a slick Public Defender finding loopholes or the Judge allowing them to get off on a technicality. And they feel sorry for the DA who has to try the case again. They see a dangerous criminal getting set back onto the streets. What the average asshole doesn't understand is that the cases were overturned because of PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT. The alleged suspect was set free because the DA broke the law to get a conviction. The everyday-stupids on the jury never saw the exculpatory evidence because they dirty cops destroyed it or the DA never turned it over. So why are most people on their side? If they cant get a conviction without being best friends with the judge or withholding evidence, then they shouldn't be doing this job. VOTE THEM OUT. They are after all elected officials. But really if they get caught doing all of this shit they should get jail time or a sanction or a fine or something. We The People have this power that we seem to never properly wield. We have the ballot box and the public being educated on how the system is supposed to work.
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