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From this news story - Associated Press**
Why on earth must this man stay in prison for one more day, let alone 4 more months, what’s the deal, If he’s innocent he shouldn’t be in prison AT ALL. Can someone explain to me the nuts and bolts of why it would take so long to process a person out of prison.
Thanx, Janx
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I can’t get your link, but you appeart to have misunderstood the article. From CNN
Essentially, he was to be released in February because his sentence was up - the DNA got him out earlier.
The real rant here is that he can’t get compensation. I believe this is the case because nobody is “responsible” for the incorrect jury verdict. AFAIK, many states have laws that give some compensation, but not nearly enough. A true tragedy.
What IzzyR said.
“He had been scheduled for release in February.”
Not has but had.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh, OK I get it now, Duuuh! :smack:
[Little old lady voice] Never mind [/voice]
BTW Nando times (free news wire but you have to sign up),
says this about compensating this poor guy.
**from the same article: **
Thought you might like to know.
Thanx, Janx
They should not only be paying him, but setting him up for life. It was taken from him wrongly, and now they’re just going to send him out into the world without a prayer? So typical.
Slight hijack -
What is the standard protocol (in the US) for compensating wrongfully imprisonated people for lost time? I always had it in my head that it was pretty much nothing aside from “Oops, we’re sorry, have a nice rest of your life.”, based on the fact the imprisoned person was (most likely) tried and found guilty despite actual innocence.
Could one sue the state for lost wages? Anything?
SIC, Ibelieve that compensation depends on the state & only a select number of them give it.
As an aside, they just arrested someone and charged them with the rape he was in prision for. It seems that while the DNA evidence didn’t match him, it did match someone else in the database. IIRC, it was a person who was 16 at the time.
Here’s a link to the story:
http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/crime/bal-md.rape19nov19,0,2399664.story?coll=bal-local-headlines
MC$E
That’s incredibly wrong. Not only this guy lost his freedom, his job and probably any chance to have an acceptable career in the future, more generally will probably have a totally fucked up life, but also he has been reviled and considered for years as the lowest life form for a crime he didn’t commit, had probably his face all over the papers, etc…
These people should receive enormous compensations. Here they’re are indemnized, but I always thought that these compensations(which are granted by a specific court) are without comparison with the wrong which has been done to them (I’ve no figure in mind, but say : you spend 8 years in jail? Here’s 100 000 . like 100 000 would make it for a wasted life and 8 years in cell being considered a rapist) and apparently totally inconsistent ( you spend one year in jail : 50 000 . You too spend one year in jail : 2 000 ).
But no indmenization at all??? Like in : here’s a bus ticket and the adress of the nearest homeless shelter??? That fucking unbelievable. People shoudl be all up in arms to ask for a better treatment for guys like him. If someone can call himself a victim of society, it’s him! And actually, he has been sacrified for the common well-being (and despised for that, contrarily to, say, a soldier). There have been people who, like we often see on this board, have stated how evil he was, and how they would like to castrate, torture and execute him.
I can’t believe they let people like him go with a “sorry, that was a littlle misunderstanding”. How can the members of the judiciary (prosecutors, judges, etc… ) and also the press and general public not attract the attention of the legislators on such an issue? Especially since it’s not a nation wide issue, and that he would receive indemnizations in some states.
That such a situation can be allowed to exist is beyond me…
But that, fortunately, for me, is more of a GD kind of thing.
Well, indeed, ** manhattan ** . I couldn’t help myself. And actually didn’t even paid attention to what forum I was posting in. Sorry.