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Dan freed 200 but More languish in jail Clarence Page in a statistic that is both Gratifying and horrifying an army Veteran from Chi Cago has become the 200th person to be exonerated by Dan evidence according to the innocence project a nonprofit new Yor based Legal clinic that s Gratifying be cause Justice Long de Nied to innocents like Jerry Miller 48 and 199 others who came before him finally has been served but Mill ers Good news also raises horrifying questions about flaws in our nations criminal Justice system for one thing Only 10 percent of felonies produce any biological evidence that can be tested for Dan according to lawyer Barry Scheck who confounded the innocence project in 1992 to help prisoners prove their innocence through Dan evidence and a closer look at the 200 exoneration Tell us what you think stars and stripes welcomes your comments on editorials and columns that Are published in the newspaper and values letters on topics of importance in the lives of our readers All letters must be signed and must include the writers address or base and Telephone number please limit All letters to 300 words we Reserve the right to edit letters for length taste and clarity Send your letters to us mail International mail stars and stripes stars and stripes unit 29480 Postrach 1330 Apo a 09211 64345 Griesheim via fax country code 0 Dan 3498395 email produces an unsettling View of the mistakes that often Seal a conviction some 77 per cent of the convictions resulted from mistaken identity almost two thirds involved faulty scientific evidence about on fourth involved false confessions or my ruminating statements and 15 percent involved incorrect information from informants the cases most Likely to leave Dan Evi Dence Are rapes which Are also the cases that tend most to show evidence of racial Bias of the 200 exoneration 123 were rape cases Only 12 percent of sexual assaults Are be tween a victim of one race and an assailant of another according to Justice department statistics yet 64 percent of the 200 exonerated convicts were Black males convicted of raping White females the most endangered person to be in America is a Black Man accused of raping a White woman Scheck told me in a tele1 phone interview of course such stereotypes can Cut both ways these Days As revealed in the exoneration of three former Duke University la Crosse players of a rape that apparently never happened judging by the Dan Evi Dence among other evidence major Media and Many of the rest of us including me found it All to easy to believe the overzealous prosecutors scenario of privileged White College boys taking criminal advantage of a poor Black woman who was work ing her Way through College As a stripper this entire experience has opened my eyes up to a tragic world of injustice i never knew existed said Reade Seligmann one of the three cleared former teammates in what makes an appropriate epitaph to the whole sorry episode if it is possible for Law enforcement officials to systematically rail Road us with no evidence whatsoever it is frightening to think what they could do to those who do not have the resources to de fend themselves indeed nothing concentrates the mind around the subject of Justice like the Prospect of being falsely convicted i am not angry Jerry Miller 48 told doonesbury Scott Strazzante Chicago Jerry Miller jokes with Friend Diane Arreola in Dolton 1 on april 20 Miller spent 25 years in prison for a rape he didst commit Chicago Tribune reporter Maurice Possley before a Cook county court set aside Mill ers conviction monday in not swept under the Rug still show a troubling tendency to jail innocent people any single Case of jail ing the letting the guilty run free is one too Many Scheck would like to see Dan databases and videotaped interrogations for All Felo Nies not just murders which is the Case in Many states too Many backlogs also mean evidence sits around too Long allowing the culprit to commit More crimes at the same time the National debate is Only beginning As to whether too much Dan evidence can be gathered and stored we have Only begun to learn what information about ourselves and about our ancestors is carried in our Dan civil libertarians justifiably fear too much of that information being available to too Many hands nevertheless in this new twist in the old debate Over privacy rights is Public safety if s hard to argue against the use of information that could Stop say a serial killer from striking again that debate will go on for now we should make sure that we dont leave Valu Able Dan evidence sitting on a shelf along with Justice syndicated columnist Clarence Page writes for the Chicago Tribune by Garry Trudeau in ill Only act ih6 War Czar until they can Fin a 0igg8z right sodomy worry in hot prickly City by Scott Stantis hwcwu6 Tocse