Wrongful Convictions: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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Published 2022-03-06
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All Comments (21)
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I've also heard it expressed as, "Innocent until proven broke." This explains a lot. Thanks for this.
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How can someone who is literally inside a sheriff's office when murders took place be convicted of the crime? Insanity.
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Mellisa Lucio's execution was halted and she's gonna get a new trial. Her attorney told her on the phone that she got to wake up on Thursday morning. John Oliver continues to amaze me after all these seasons. Huge respect to the show and the entire team.
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The "Is the queen dead?" joke definitely hits different right now.
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"Guilty until proven rich or lucky" I can not think of a more succinct and accurate way to describe America's legal system. Utterly real and unimaginably terrifying.
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“Guilty until proven rich or lucky” a statement like that just stays with you holy shit
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Way to go John, Melissa Lucio's execution has been stayed for 120 days. Your episode shed light on a huge problem with the amount of wrongfully convicted people. You helped save her life with your very thorough investigative journalism. Thank you.
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Good god. The fact that John is able to continue so eloquently after hearing that prosecutor blame Melissa for her Death Penalty is just amazing. I probably wouldn't be able to SEE the teleprompter from rage, let alone read from it.
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I am straight up crying. What a waste of an existence that prosecutor is.
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I don't know who said this but I think this sentiment is correct: "The US doesn't have a justice system, it has a legal system."
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I watched this the day before Melissa's trial. They have JUST halted her execution due to new evidence. I'm saddened that it even got this close for them to do so.
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This is the day Melissa Lucio was supposed to be executed but she dodged it in the last day or two. Her execution was stayed after renewed light which was partly thanks to this episode.
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When cops are allowed to lie, forcing confessions with their emotional words, it isn't justice. It's coersion.
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Prosecutorial misconduct should be a felony, and in a death penalty case it should be a murder charge
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There are no words to describe how evil it is that some prosecutors want to keep people locked up when they KNOW they are innocent. How can you live with yourself???? I am SOOO grateful for progressive prosecutors, but it seems like they are so hard to find.
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A perfect example of why you never talk to police. "What's your name?" "Lawyer."
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Long story short: we should always be infinitely more willing to risk letting a guilty man go free than to risk letting an innocent man be punished...because if we let an innocent man be punished, we've still let a guilty man go free.
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Fun fact: The DA who sought the death penalty for Maria Melissa Lucio was later convicted of taking bribes and corruption and is currently serving 14 years. EDIT: To correct the name. My bad. High af sunday night.
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As someone who was forced to take a guilty plea by both my public defender & sheriff, I stand behind every single word you said. They made sure my appeal paperwork never left the prison I was in. They even had the AUDACITY to bring it back to me & rip it up in my face, insuring that I'd missed the deadline 😭
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You can feel John's anger bursting through at the end.
