Eyewitness identification

I have serious doubts about the competence of a criminal attorney (whether he's a defense attorney or a prosecutor) who doesn't know how unreliable eyewitness identification is.

The people of NYC did a good job

They're going to have a new District Attorney, one who had actually been endorsed by the Innocence Project rather than the Police Union.

They might actually start getting some justice from the prosecutors office in Manhattan.

Evaulation of evidence in criminal prosecutions.

I thought that evidence of crime was supposed to be evaulated with a "defense spin". That's what burden of proof and presumption of innoncence means.

But if we actually did that prosecutors wouldn't get to put as many people in prison as they do now (more than any other country in the world). And what would be the fun in that?

A girl has to make a living

Cops hire an informant to have sex with a prostitute at a massage parlor. The judge thought that was kind of outrageous behavior on the part of the cops and dismissed the prostitution charge against the owner of the massage parlor.

The DA thinks that the judge overstepped his bounds

District Attorney James B. Martin said he will appeal the decision to the state Superior Court.

''I think it's absurd to say that the conduct that police engaged in in this set of circumstances, with someone who was known to run brothels, is outrageous,'' Martin said. ''With all due respect to Judge Steinberg, I think he used his own moral compass to decide this case and not the law and the facts.''

At least somebody seems to have a moral compass. Maybe it would be a net benefit to society if the police and DA got one themselves.