A couple of recent back-of-the-paper news items once again served as a reminder of the perils of getting caught up in the nation's haphazard criminal justice system, where political expedience too often results in a rush to judgment that obscures the truth.
The first was the death of Richard Jewell, the private security guard who saved lives during the Olympic bombing incident in Atlanta and ended up being victimized by an overzealous FBI director and the press in what has to be everyone's worst nightmare.
The second was the final punctuation to one of the larger travesties in modern jurisprudence, the unfounded allegations against three members of the Duke lacrosse team, with the conviction for criminal contempt of disbarred former prosecutor Michael Nifong.
Read the rest in The Sun Herald.
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