American justice?

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What is it about american prosecutors that they seem unable to concede that maybe they made a mistake?

It seems sometimes to be the case in the US that if you are accused you are therefore guilty regardless of the evidence.

"A Scot who has spent 18 years on death row in the US protesting his innocence said prosecutors "took from me what they can't give back".

Kenny Richey, 40, who was brought up in Edinburgh, has been told that he will be retried for killing a two-year-old child in Ohio in 1986.

The decision was announced by a prosecutor on Thursday.

Richey's conviction was overturned in April and prosecutors were given 90 days to release or retry him. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4637291.stm

http://www.amnesty.org.uk/action/camp/d ... html#facts