{"id":87833,"date":"2024-07-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87833"},"modified":"2024-07-02T07:38:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T12:38:07","slug":"87833","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87833","title":{"rendered":"The Keystone Prosecutors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Henco attorney Mary Moriarty has established a &#8220;wrongful convictions&#8221; unit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fair trials are the bedrock of the legal system. Without them, proper convictions get overturned, innocent people are stripped of their freedom, and people who commit crimes avoid accountability. <br><br>These are unacceptable outcomes and our new CIU is dedicated to preventing them. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/krbLBhIMTL\">pic.twitter.com\/krbLBhIMTL<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty (@HennepinAtty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HennepinAtty\/status\/1807870698314256671?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Moriarty &#8211; a former public defender &#8211; alleges that 5% of convictions in Henco are erroneous.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So &#8211; Hennepin County isn&#8217;t charging, or is grossly undercharging, all but the most egregiously, unavoidably and politically explosive cases, and is admitting that one out of every twenty convictions they <em>did <\/em>get were wrong?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is there <em>anything <\/em>the Henco attorneys office does right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henco attorney Mary Moriarty has established a &#8220;wrongful convictions&#8221; unit: Moriarty &#8211; a former public defender &#8211; alleges that 5% of convictions in Henco are erroneous. So &#8211; Hennepin County isn&#8217;t charging, or is grossly undercharging, all but the most egregiously, unavoidably and politically explosive cases, and is admitting that one out of every twenty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[465],"class_list":["post-87833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","tag-mary-moriarty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87833"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87836,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87833\/revisions\/87836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}