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Because of the seriousness of the crime, the judge said, Harris will not be released as he waits for a new trial, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. A new trial date has not been set.
This is a load of shit. A blind witness AND cop intimidation should automatically lead to being freed from jail until a new trial begins.
Justice my ass. Pfft.
ACAB
He's staying in jail, it doesn't really matter what if anything he did.
---the US justice system having a normal one
That is absolute bullshit.
Lawsuit incoming.
For anyone who's isn't aware eye witness testimony is routinely wrong. It is far from a fool proof form of evidence.
when I was taking a law class in person our professor had arranged for a friend of his to walk into the classroom, shout "BANG" and then leave. After that happened, we finished the rest of the 3 hour night class, and at the end of the class asked us all to write down a description of that person and hand it in. Next week, he had compiled all the descriptions into a tag cloud of characteristics that we as eye witnesses had "testified" to. We couldn't even agree on this person's presented race and gender. We literally had people saying it was a black man and people saying it was a white woman. Eyewitness testimony isn't just far from foolproof, it should probably be ignored in most cases.
I bet the witness did not see that coming
That sounds like something straight from The Onion.
All the other key witnesses are dead other than the shop clerk and mechanic. Chicago gangland is wild