{"id":7014,"date":"2022-07-06T08:53:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T15:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=7014"},"modified":"2022-07-06T08:53:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T15:53:38","slug":"the-exoneration-hustle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=7014","title":{"rendered":"The Exoneration Hustle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Hogan has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/the-exoneration-hustle\">this article<\/a> with the above title at the City Journal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The headline is becoming more common: \u201cInnocent Man Freed After Decades in Jail for Murder!\u201d As a matter of statistical probabilities, it must be true that some innocent defendants are convicted. But experienced law enforcement officials are growing concerned that progressive prosecutors are freeing guilty murderers in their rush to enforce their own politics of decarceration and equity. 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A close look at how this exoneration hustle works is worth reviewing because the pattern becomes clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prosecutors"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Exoneration Hustle - Crime &amp; Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=7014\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Exoneration Hustle - Crime &amp; Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Thomas Hogan has this article with the above title at the City Journal. 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