Boston pays up on another wrongful-imprisonment case

Bernstein says that "In Powell's case, the Suffolk County DA agreed to turn over the evidence," as if, in other cases, the Suffolk County DA has not. In fact, as Bernstein knows very well, it was District Attorney Conley who made it a policy not to oppose post-conviction DNA testing for relevant evidence. Stephen Hrones knows this as well and has lauded the policy for what it is -- an affirmative, permanent, and uniformly-applied protocol with the specific intent of reducing the likelihood of a wrongful conviction to the smallest degree possible in a human endeavor like the criminal justice system.