Wouldn't Lawrie still have to serve time....

I have often thought about people who are wrongly convicted In films like The Fugitive, Old Harrison commits several offences in an effort to prove his innocence, should he go to prison for the offences he wouldn't have had the chance to commit if he hadn't ben wrongly convicted. I would be very pee'd off if I was made to stay in prison for offences (minor) committed whilst I shouldn't have been in prison. If I was wrongly convicted I might turn to drugs (illegal) to numb the pain of what has happened to me, something I would never do outside. Surely they can't do you for that? Can they?

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The conviction was overturned because the lab had a somewhat spotty record of handling DNA evidence. I wouldn't have done what the judge did, simply because Lawrie was the only suspect in the case (I assume) and other forms of evidence could have been used to convict him. The OJ Simpson defence cast doubt on the lab work by insisting that the detective had taken too long to get the evidence to the lab, and they were wrong too.

He'd probably sentenced but since he'd already served time whilst wrongly convicted, the new sentence would be deemed to have been served already. He might be put on parole.

That's my guess.