The article said, "the prosecution in his initial trial had not given Irons’s defense fingerprint evidence that could have been used to argue his innocence". It was prosecutorial misconduct but that's usually not enough to get a conviction vacated. Usually the evidence that the prosecution didn't turn over in discovery has to be something that could prove the convict's innocence because the burden of proof after a conviction is on the convict not the state. So on the end of Irons and Moore it sounds like a really nice story where he was wrongfully convicted and then that was corrected with him going free and moving on with his life. Obviously @Paine Tablet doesn't like this sort of thing because "who asks for this"?
Knowing your previous history and political views, I get why this would anger you. Also, who gives a shit.
This man spent 20 years in prison for a crime he almost certainly did not commit. If he retained enough humanity to love a woman and their child that is a triumph. What is the problem? Female basketball players? Black people? People for whom Jesus motivates them to help the downtrodden instead of kicking them? The correct response to the birth of a wanted child is mazel tov. If you can't say it, STFU.
