Parole boards want remorse, but what if you’re innocent?

[Note: Friends of Justice is a personal blog. I speak only for myself.]

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Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times

The case of Robert Hill, convicted of murder in 1988 on the eyewitness accounts of some high crackheads, brings the Catch-22 of parole to the fore. Thinking it would get him paroled, Hill expressed remorse for a crime he says he did not commit. It’s a perennial problem for attorneys appealing false convictions.

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