JUST ONE MORE REASON WHY I SHOULD BECOME A D.A.

Bob Herbert's latest column is on an Alabama travesty of justice in which a retarded man was thrown in jail for killing his ex-wife's infant. The evidence for: allegations of the woman who had an incentive to lie about pregnancy to get release from jail, her felon boyfriend, and the "confession" of the husband after days of being interrogated without counsel. Otherwise there is no evidence that she was ever pregnant baby even existed. The evidence against: HER TUBES WERE TIED. The local D.A.'s response to Mr. Herbert's question of if there was a chance he would consider dropping the charges in light of this evidence - "Not in this lifetime." I'm sure I'll never be able to use the position as a springboard to politics, but someone has to be in the room to say "wait a minute, isn't our job to convict only the guilty people?"