What We Do When it Matters
Talkleft reports on an ex-prosecutor who is trying to overturn the conviction of two men he put behind bars in the 1970s.
The prosecutor, Thomas Breen, says:
I would rather [this case] come back 25 years later and find out I'm dead wrong than those guys spend one more day in jail," he said in an interview. "I don't see anything wrong with correcting your errors when the errors are shown."If these guys didn't do it--and all the evidence seems to indicate we are dead wrong--then it's devastating."