You think that's an equivalent analogy?

No, I said coerce. The prosecutor doesn't have to pursue everything anyone asks. I can't just walk over to the city prosecutor's office and demand they lock up my neighbor. Their job is to determine whether something can and should be prosecuted. A victim can't be expected to make those decisions impartially.

Along with a lot of arson investigation "science."

Neat. How is that her fault? Did she coerce the prosecutor into pursuing the conviction based solely on her whims?

No. Again, she was mistaken on the stand. Lots of people are, and it has nothing to do with honesty or intent.

She didn't lie. She was mistaken. The people at fault are the attorneys who apparently based the case on that. Victims of violent crimes are frequently wrong about details and the trauma continues to affect their experience. None of that is her fault, it's just how brains work.

East Cleveland accounted for a large portion of the third season of Serial. Well worth the listen.

We weren't always like this. The death of American manufacturing and unions left a vacuum the hillbillies filled.

>The case's lead prosecutor was fired.

Fired from the case, but the story doesn't necessarily indicate she was fired from the DA's office.

>The agency immediately removed the prosecutor handling the case, Stephanie Minogue, from her position as the deputy chief of its Police Accountability Unit, which reports directly to the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg.

I think the headline sort of implies it. If he was here 10 years it seems a little weird to describe him as an immigrant unless its relevant. He'd be just like any other farm worker committing mass murder.

For me personally, with the standard caveat this is entirely subjective:

Yea: Circe, The Songs of the Kings, Song of Achilles

Nay: Silence of the Girls, Women of Troy, A Thousand Ships, Daughters of Sparta

Mostly I'm fascinated at just how many of these there are in the past couple decades. The Iliad is a rich mine for material, and has been for a couple thousand years, but it's interesting to me how modern writers are wrapping our current cultural values into it.

There's a slew of books taking alternate looks at the Iliad. Like, way more than I expected when I decided to try and read them all just because I dig the whole scene with Troy. Of the bunch, I thought Song of Achilles was the best. Maybe a close second behind The Songs of the Kings, but that's more about Iphigenia.

Leave that shit on the History Channel where it belongs.