Not sure whether to be happy or depressed.
Prosecutors are dropping the case against a US woman who spent more than 30 years in prison for a 1976 murder...
The FBI say DNA found on a cigarette butt at the Reno crime scene suggests the real killer is a former Oregon prison inmate, Rodney Halbower...
Woods, now 64, was convicted in 1980 and again 5 yrs later. The convictions were based largely on the confession she made in 1979 at the psychiatric hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana...
Woods doesn't remember acknowledging the killing while hospitalised... "I'm told it was a product of wanting to get a private room," public defender Maizie Pusich said. "She was being told she wasn't sufficiently dangerous to qualify, and within a short period she was claiming she had killed a woman in Reno."
Maybe I have to be both.
"She is delighted," Pusich told the Reno Gazette-Journal. "She is having probably the best day of her life because she knows that this is all over."
So many are convicted on the basis of false, coerced confessions by police and DAs with no accountability. So many are essentially forced to plead guilty to something to get out of the hell of the justice system. So many are gunned down in the street by police, never getting a chance to be convicted or found innocent. So many who do survive and make it into prison are mentally ill. So many - 80,000 - are caged in solitary confinement.
The Criminal Injustice System. It is aptly named.
11:51 AM PT: Video of Woods, now out of prison: http://www.csmonitor.com/...