There are abundant reasons to be grateful that we do not live under the Old Testament "lex talonis" legal covenant, and one compelling reason to lament that this is so: Under the system of justice described in the Book of Deuteronomy, a lying police officer and corrupt prosecutor who falsely convicted an innocent man would be required to suffer the punishment intended for their victim.

Under that legal principle, former Idaho Falls Police Detective Jared Fuhriman and former Bonneville County District Attorney Kip Manwaring would be serving a sentence of 30 years to life for the wrongful murder conviction of Christopher Conley Tapp.

Angie Dodge was murdered in her Idaho Falls apartment on or about June 13, 1996. The perpetrator entered the apartment without forcing entry, and was strong enough to overcome the determined resistance of an athletic woman who was six feet tall and weighed roughly 180 pounds (the victim's body displayed "defensive wounds"). Although there was semen deposited on the victim's upper torso, a post-mortem determined that she had not been raped. The crime scene evidence made it clear that this abhorrent act was carried out by a lone perpetrator. That evidence also excludes Christopher Tapp as a legitimate suspect.