# Miscarriage of Justice Omnibus Thread

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**Created:** [June 4, 2021, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miscarriage-of-justice-omnibus-thread/943643 "2021-06-04T20:52:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miscarriage-of-justice-omnibus-thread/943643/347 "2024-08-11T19:06:21Z")

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Reposting something I posted earlier in the [Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 2)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657).

[Gift link](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/09/nyregion/arvell-marshall-surveillance-video-exoneration.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CE4.JMhv.rzIO2lDam7nQ&smid=url-share) to New York Time article about the overturning of the 2009 murder conviction of [Arvel Marshall](http://www.brooklynda.org/2024/08/09/brooklyn-district-attorney-moves-to-vacate-conviction-of-brooklyn-man-who-served-16-years-for-homicide-after-critical-video-wasnt-turned-over/). During the trial, he repeated asked his attorney, prosecutors and the judge for the surveillance videos that he felt would prove his innocence. They first denied that video existed and then denied his request. After being jailed for _sixteen years_ (the conviction was for 25 years to life), he was finally released and the video did, in fact, show the murderer was not him.

So he served sixteen years for something done by someone clearly not him. Meanwhile their punishment for gross negligence is what, exactly? Nothing.

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