The System That Failed David Milgaard

Procedures should be both fair and seen to be fair in our legal system. This was certainly not the case in the story of David Milgaard who spent twenty-three years in prison after police coerced false testimony to be used against him. Our system seems to have neglected principles of justice which are essential to our nation’s citizens freedom, putting an innocent man in prison. It appears that without the discovery of DNA testing our system would have continued to fail.


David Milgaard grew up with his two brothers, two sisters, and his mo...