They don't pay someone back for doing time for something they didn't do.

Sometimes the Police or FBI labs will fake results just to convict someone. Or refuse to do a test, like DNA, that could prove their innocence. I am sure it was hard for that guy to sit there and say he didn't do it when the woman was yelling "He raped me!", and he resembled a man who did it and they picked him from a lineup. The scary part is that there are men out there who resemble me, if any of them commit a crime in my area, I might get picked up and blamed for their crime. DNA testing would prove that I didn't do it, but would they allow it at my trial?

I feel sorry for the guy, and I hope that they catch the real rapist. The Police do make mistakes, but apparently don't seem to pay for them like the rest of us.

all one needs to do is get people to act as witnesses and swear that the man on trial did it. Even if those people fail polygraph tests, commit purgery, are as big a slimeball as the defend is claimed to be, etc.

Judges and Prosecutors are lawyers too, and most lawyers are scum anyway. Trust me, I know this for a fact having worked for lawyers for over four years. I was fired on "suspicions" not "facts" brought up by jealous coworkers that wouldn't have passed a polygraph test and would say their grandfather kidnapped the Lindbergh Baby it if meant they could keep their jobs for another year. Plus when I asked for details and examples, they wouldn't give me any.