The shitty thing about life without parole is that it doesnt always stay that way.

We see all the time when some appeal to a murder case gets played out on the news. Sometimes it makes for an interesting soundbite, but it always seems to hedge on something very circumstantial or attempts to get a new trial or some sort of sentencing consideration from an ultra lenient judge, and prosecuting a 30 year old case is never easy- your detectives are retired (or dead), much of the evidence is no longer available, you certainly can't find reliable witnesses after that time...

I mean, I don't have any answer to it. It just seems like during the past couple of years we've seen a lot of very questionable attempts to reframe cases that were slam dunks, and you'll normally hear people even here complain about how "sketchy" it is that the prosecutors in a given county arent willing to go back and re-test some magical new DNA evidence or something. Well no shit, they don't know anything about the case and don't want to fight an uphill battle. I can't think of names offhand but I know there have been a couple of netflix shows in the past year pimping that angle and trying to seed very questionable and curated statements and minutiae into doubt about cases that sure seem like they were good.