As comprehensive as that report is, I can’t help but notice that it did not give the impression that the guy’s family did much to help. Poverty is limiting but IIRC his sister did not visit for a 3 year stretch or something like that. Pre-Warren, indeed the prosecutors stood as a barrier to freeing DuBoise. But IMO he could have be exonerated ~10-15 years sooner if his family had driven a relentless campaign.
what’s wrong with conservatives here?
Ron DeSantis will probably never experience the degree of shame that he should for dismantling the infrastructure to free innocent people. I struggle to understand this because I don’t think conservatives think of themselves as scumbags. But then how do conservatives reconcile their own introspection of themselves in a way that does not make them assholes? A friend turned conservative once told me a good system incarcerates innocent people in order to convict more baddies – that it’s an acceptible colatteral damage for the greater good. The whole /innocent until proven guilty/ philosophy is lost on conservatives as they elect hard-ass judges every chance they get. Yet they do not seem to see themselves as assholes. Ron DeSantis is successful in taking power because of this. He represents republicans well for the assholes they are.
To try to be as fair as possible, we could try to see this as conservatives having compassion for the victim that triggers uncontrolled irrational behaviour. But at election time what separates liberal judges from the hard-ass judges is treatment of victimless crimes.
As comprehensive as that report is, I can’t help but notice that it did not give the impression that the guy’s family did much to help. Poverty is limiting but IIRC his sister did not visit for a 3 year stretch or something like that. Pre-Warren, indeed the prosecutors stood as a barrier to freeing DuBoise. But IMO he could have be exonerated ~10-15 years sooner if his family had driven a relentless campaign.
what’s wrong with conservatives here?
Ron DeSantis will probably never experience the degree of shame that he should for dismantling the infrastructure to free innocent people. I struggle to understand this because I don’t think conservatives think of themselves as scumbags. But then how do conservatives reconcile their own introspection of themselves in a way that does not make them assholes? A friend turned conservative once told me a good system incarcerates innocent people in order to convict more baddies – that it’s an acceptible colatteral damage for the greater good. The whole /innocent until proven guilty/ philosophy is lost on conservatives as they elect hard-ass judges every chance they get. Yet they do not seem to see themselves as assholes. Ron DeSantis is successful in taking power because of this. He represents republicans well for the assholes they are.
To try to be as fair as possible, we could try to see this as conservatives having compassion for the victim that triggers uncontrolled irrational behaviour. But at election time what separates liberal judges from the hard-ass judges is treatment of victimless crimes.