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Summary Of Dedge Pros And Cons

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State v. Dedge Article Critique
Introduction
On December 8, 1981 Wilton Dedge was working in his shop in Florida where he repairs transmissions. A 17 year old girl Jane Smith that stays in Florida about 50 miles from where Dedge works, was rapped two times and was cut by a razor 65 times. The description that the girl gave law enforcement was a tall white male standing about six and a half foot tall and weighing around 200 pounds. Dedge was seen at the gas station twice buy the girls sister where she called police. Dedge went to the police because he had always trusted law enforcement. He knew he was innocent and figured he would have the situation worked out and he would be free to go. He was surprised to find out that he was sentenced to …show more content…

Merjian and he sees to be biases in this article towards wrongful convictions. He spends the first couple pages in his article explaining how wrongful convictions are happening and how it’s usually on higher offense cases. He goes on two show stats on how so many cases have had to be changed in the past due to wrongful convictions. I feel as if my reaction to this article is the same as his when he was writing it. I think it is very odd that the courts would constantly get cases wrong. I feel like after the courts made these errors over a certain amount of time that they would come up with some type of procedures to try and minimize wrongful convictions. Also I feel like it is crazy for there to be and obvious wrongful conviction. By obvious wrongful conviction I mean like in the case of State v. Dedge where half of the evidence that was pending against him wasn’t strong enough to convict some one or the witnesses used had past history of being wrong in court. I don’t understand how the court system wouldn’t take the time to help someone that was sentenced to life in prison when all evidence proves his or her …show more content…

This article has the potential to show the reader how often wrongful convictions actually do happen and the means that someone wrongfully convicted has to go through to try and turn there case back around. I do believe that this article is a little bias and that the reader doesn’t really get to see the amount of times that the courts actually get the cases right. It’s just a good article in the fact it shows the amount of times wrongful convictions happen and the time it takes and effort from and individual to get a case

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