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Although Gascón delivered on some of his campaign promises — he aggressively prosecuted police officers in fatal uses of excessive force, and improved the office’s efforts to exonerate people who had been wrongfully convicted — he could never shake the perception that he was “soft on crime.”

And what did the prosecutors say to exonerate themselves?

If they thought Kavanaugh was innocent, they would have been eager to conduct an investigation to exonerate him.

An analysis of the DNA evidence on the kitchen knife used to kill Gayle just before a late August hearing showed that it had been contaminated with DNA from a prosecutor and investigator on the case, leaving Williams and his defense team without the new evidence they had hoped would exonerate him.

The Scottish Parliament introduced legislation to automatically exonerate victims, but in August some victims said they were still waiting for updates on whether they had been cleared or not.