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Today, Rafael Madrigal, Jr. was released from the California Institution for men today at noon. The release of Madrigal follows the reversal of an attempted murder conviction for a July 2000 gang-related shooting in which Madrigal was not involved. Co-counsel Eric Multhrup filed the motion for bail on Madrigal's behalf. Last Thursday, Magistrate Judge Marc Goldman granted the motion in an October 1 written court order.
Madrigal's release marks the sixth release of a wrongfully incarcerated person through the Innocence Project, established in 1999 at California Western School of Law. The project evaluates over 2,000 claims of innocence from California inmates each year and several law students from the school participate in the clinics activities. Students who participate in the year-long clinic work alongside CIP staff attorneys on cases where there is strong evidence of factual innocence.
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Comments
If in fact there are doubts that this man could be innocent, then why are the officials wasting time and money that their state needs to prolong this case? Executing a man is more expensive then to have him live life in prison. So I learned. It is the publics responsibility to bring it to the officials attention that there should be no man set to die when innocence lives in him and it can be proven. A mans life should not be a sacrifice and there should be punishments and or consequences when officials don't want to over look their poor decisions.
If I had the responsibility the officials had and that I made the wrong decision and a man died......I wouldn't know how to live or be myself. I guess it's nothing new to them.
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