Prisoner Project
* Regarding the article, “O.C. Aims to Unearth Wrongful Convictions,” (Sept. 21):
Hats off to the district attorney and sheriff I helped elect for their participation in a project that might free an innocent person from prison if that mistake was indeed made.
What troubles me, however, is that law students from a local college might be allowed to place their own views of “freedom” upon this unique arrangement by being part of the public defender’s own “Innocence Project.”
This program would allow law college students to review cases and search for evidence that might allow convicted criminals to be set free.
Keep in mind that the only thing that separates those of us with a bachelor’s degree from being a “law student” is going into the work force after college instead of taking the LSAT.
MIKE RAGSDALE
Huntington Beach
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