Ratko Mladic – The Innocent Man

When I heard about arrest of General Ratko Mladic first think that come to my mind was John Grisham and his book The Innocent Man.  Murder and injustice in small town.   Well, in this case not exactly small town but big world.

Do we going to see case of Ron Williamson’s wrongful conviction but in much bigger, I would say colossal proportions on almost all Serbs, detainees   in the Hague tribunal? It looks like that and specially in cases of Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic and it was like that in almost all cases so far executed. Sure there were murders but that is usually what is happening in the war. And there were murders on and from all sides.

I would just quote what John Grisham said at University of Rishmmond’s T. C Williams School of Law. “There are thousands of innocent people in prison in this country. I had never really thought about wrongful conviction. I didn’t really think about it until The Innocent Man was researched and written.”

Based on hair analysis, snitches and a couple of bogus confessions, Ron was given the death penalty,” Grisham said. Williamson stayed on death row for years until a team of appellate lawyers sought a writ of habeas corpus and he was granted a stay five days before he was to be executed.

Grisham  cited a number or reasons for wrongful convictions, including sloppy police work, courthouse snitches, junk science, false confessions and bad lawyering. Of the 130 death-row cases that have been overturned in the US, he said, two-thirds of them involved willful, malicious misconduct by authorities.

Did you noticed? Two-thirds of them involved willful, malicious misconduct by authorities!  Prosecutors and judges included.

And just like Ron Williams, Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic will be convicted based on long time before finished media campaign, lot of bogus confessions and very, very malicious international authorities and media.

To exonerate them I am convinced we will need somebody like John Grisham and something like Institute for Actual  War Innocence.