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MrMind comments on Amanda Knox Guilty Again - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: MrMind 31 January 2014 05:11:28PM 7 points [-]

If you are interested in such matters, a much bigger and more grotesque case of rationality failure in a justice system is the case of Thomas Quick.
I'm reading "Thomas Quick: the making of a serial killer" by Hannes Rastam. The guy was convicted 8 times for about 30 murders he didn't commit. The extent to which many different courts can be wrong over years of investigations is frightening...