List of wrongful convictions in the United States Puns

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/lying-prisoners-new-laws-crack-down-on-jailhouse-informants/ar-AAHinYX?ocid=spartanntp

How long will it take Wisconsin to get up to speed?

Edit; Wisconsin insists on taking steps to defend their wrongful convictions.

Bad faith, Brady violations, devious attempts to hide/destroy evidence, obstructing appeals attorneys, violating their own statutes; all in the name of "justice".

Every one of these guilty people should be resigning in shame.

Some argue that Manitowoc’s insurance would have paid out a large settlement had the depositions commenced. I argue that is false and Manitowoc would have been on the hook for at minimum a few million. That being said, public / government entities cherish their “bond rating”. Yes, municipalities receive bond ratings from entities such as Moody’s. The lower the “bond rating” the higher interest they pay on loans (just like a consumer).

It is fact that had Manitowoc had to pay directly to Avery their bond rating would have plummeted. The County’s constituents would not be happy with them.

Due to a wrongful conviction case and settlement reached, watch for Milwaukee’s bond rating to plummet in the coming months.

“It appears Milwaukee will need to borrow the money to pay Stinson, according to the resolution that states the city would use "up to $7,500,000 million dollars of Contingent Borrowing to fund settlement of the above-noted lawsuit."

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2019/07/11/milwaukee-pay-7-5-million-wrongfully-convicted-man/1673834001/

I can't be the only one tired of alphabetical lists where you have to scroll past fucking Monaco and Uganda to find the largest English speaking economy in the world. Hell, let the UK and Canada share the top with us, I'm even fine with putting China up there. Just end this nonsense where I have to scroll past microstates, developing nations where 90% of the population doesn't have internet, and half the world to find my country.

1. Asimov's Science Fiction
2. Apex Magazine
3. Interzone
4. Analog Magazine
5. Strange Horizons
6. Clarkesworld Magazine
7. GUD
8. Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine
9. TOR Magazine
10. Beneath Ceaseless Skies
11. Uncanny Magazine
12. Fiyah Magazine
13. Lightspeed Magazine
14. Shoreline of Infinity
15. Deep Magic

I'll edit this section as more people add their magazines in the comments section. Also, if you know any podcasts that read Fantasy/ Sci-Fi short stories on the regular, please mention them to.

In each case, the convicted defendant had some initial success in the lower appellate courts. But within the last year, in both Adnan Syed & Brendan Dassey's cases, the highest courts that will ever rule on their respective cases shut down their appeals.

In Dassey's case, the federal 7th Circuit actually voted to hear his appeal en banc, which resulted in a 4-3 en banc opinion that overruled the initial 2-1 panel of 3 judges that had ruled in Dassey's favor.

I see 2 possibilities regarding how appellate judges handle the flood of public/media interest in cases championed by popular podcasts/documentaries. Neither is particularly beneficial to a convicted defendant:

1. Either they're oblivious to the chatter outside the courtroom, in which case such documentaries have no effect on judicial decisions. This is as it should be: judges deciding only on the basis of the judicial record, instead of "trial by media." OR
2. The judges are aware that the documentaries spawn a sizable contingent that demand that a particular defendant be released/retried/exonerated/etc. But in the face of such clamor, these judges go out of their way to ensure that they're not seen as "caving" to public pressure.

Judges can't be seen as favoring a particular appellant just because that appellant has 5 million fans/supporters instead of the ordinary appellant who has only 5. Nor can they invite the perception that all that is needed by any of the millions of defendants is a journalist/filmmaker/documentarian willing to champion their cause. These days it doesn't seem to take much to be a journalist (on Twitter/Medium) or a filmmaker (on YouTube).

I thought I perceived some parallels between the forces seemingly at play here regarding criminal appeals on the one hand and, on the other, some of the Supreme Court's considerations that come up each time it revisits an intensely divisive topic. Most notably, I recalled that in Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), one of the principal reasons that motivated the Court to uphold most of Roe v. Wade was that, if the Court were to overrule Roe simply because opposition to Roe had grown louder in demanding that Roe be overruled, then the Court would be seen as "surrendering to political pressure" and as beholden more to partisan whims than to durable jurisprudential principles.

Do you think a similar phenomenon is occurring here: the more numerous & the more vocal a particular appellant's supporters grow, the more

So I saw a post earlier elsewhere on Reddit and it got me thinking, what if a convicted criminal, serving a sentence (term I don't think matters, but let's assume it covers the entire term) in a state prison for a state crime is elected president?

Apparantly if they were a federal prisoner in a federal prison they could simply hand the VP the reigns, get the VP to pardon them, and then step into office, apparantly with state prisons, that's more complicated?

To complicate it further, let's say the state governer is not compliant with the electoral process and will not pardon the inmate to take office. As apparantly that's who has the power at a state level (?)

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