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This just makes it worse!

They've publicly admitted that their test will have its result ignored. Any lawyer will quickly learn this and tell their clients, "you might as well, even if you fail, even if you are actually guilty (two entirely unrelated variables), they will still revisit your case".

What a waste of time, money and credibility. And this is the new, improved system. And it truly does seem better than what went before it. The mind boggles to comprehend the brokeness of this.

Presumably if you're actually guilty you don't want them going back and collecting more evidence on your case.

Maybe - they do actually mention one case in the article where the review yielded more evidence and made their case stronger.

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