Can you go to prison if you're innocent?

Fred F

Yes.
If the judge and jury decide you are guilty based on the evidence then you can be convicted and go to prison even though you may in fact be innocent.

Many many cases of wrongful conviction in the past.

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Nephi Smith

You sure can. Ever heard of wrongful conviction?

zon moy

Absolutely, while the crooked cops and officials get no consequences for doing it.

duckling

As corrupt as our justice systems your more likely to go to prison if your innocent that you are if your guilty.

Exiled in the Midlands

Everyone in prison is innocent. Just go and ask them.

You fumbled my Torpedo

I believe that most South American jails only accept you if you're innocent.

All the actual criminals will be locked out.

Oscar

Yes. DNA evidence has resulted in the release of quite a few innocent people from prison.

Poohcat1

You betcha. If you are convicted of a crime, guilty or not. Be willing to pay a good lawyer if you can afford it. That helps.

Keefer

Not only that, you may even be executed in some countries.

David

yep - some innocent pepole have too.

syllylou77

It happens all the time. That's why there are groups of lawyers & law students that take on old cases. Plus DNA is being used in quite a few older cases to prove innocence. There was a man released recently after spending over 20 yrs. in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Depending on the crime it can still happen for various reasons.

Sammy S

My sister did, even though the guy tried to kill her killed two people years before.

Y!AaDdIcT

yup. lots of pple do. if u have time, check out innocenceproject.com

there are so many stories of innocent pple who have been locked up for sooooooooooo long when they were 100% innocent. sad life

James L

absolutely. lots of innocent people are convicted of crimes they didn't commit. Not nearly as many as claim to be innocent, but it happens all the time.

loser1051

Nah. I haven't seen one in here yet.

mehtaap56

It is not strange in India.And it can happen anywhere.Weak deffence..!

finglas9

Yes, there have been quite a few in prisoners who were innocent. i was involved with a man who served 27 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, the longest in British criminal history.
some seem water tight, there was a case of a man, in recent times, whose fingerprints were at the scene of the crime, he was sentenced to life in prison. it turned out he could not have done it, he had an alibi the fact was another person had identical fingerprint. The fingerprint was in a blood stain on the wall. yet most people think fingerprint evidence is fireproof, it is not.

Clifford P

Yes. People have been wrongly convicted before and still are.

Wanderer

But if your the joker, you just beat up batman and get out of jail free. its true i saw it in the movies, and everyone know hollywood never lies.

not just rainbows & butterflies

Yes. If you are convicted in a court of law you go to prison.

You can always be held for not being able to post bail, or for skipping a court date, without a conviction, though technically that is jail and not prison.

Robin B

sure you can. You can be sentenced with fabricated evidence against you. You can also be imprisoned due to lack of posting bail bond thus rendering you imprisoned until the trial is over

ANF

While we have a jury system this is always a possibility. The lawyers are more interested in winning a case than actually getting real justice. Any evidence they come across that could jeopardise the winning is left un said. It is not always the jury that is at fault as they are swayed by the barrister that comes up with the most plausible evidence and has the gift of talking.

Lord Barrack O-Vader

Right now they would not send someone to prison they know is innocent.
Soon if you oppose our new Fuhrer you will be sent to a
re-education camp

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