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The man who was jailed for 22 years – on the fantasy evidence of a single hair
On 3 April 1981 Kirk Odom was walking near his home in Washington DC when he was stopped by a police officer. It was just a random passing in the street. Odom had done nothing, been nowhere. He was an unexceptional 18-year-old trying to raise his infant daughter Katrice who was then less than a year old. The officer pulled a sketch of an unidentified black man out of his pocket and invited Odom to agree that the person in the drawing looked strikingly like him.
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This quote is everything that's wrong: "It gets convictions"
Someone's gotta serve the time, guilty or not.
At least now there's a chance -- almost impossible, but a chance -- that we might get a conviction for perjury.
They didn't even apologise. What a bunch of jerks.