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• 12/17/2009 11:44 AM anon wrote:
  $ 75 dollars in his pocket when he left????!!!! I hope he is planning on suing... Horrifying enough that this happened at all... but no restitution???
  Makes me angry... because there is nothing to compensate him for his lost life.. 28 years...
  gosh...
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• 12/17/2009 8:00 PM anon wrote:
  This is obviously unrelated to the other case in the news today of the Florida man accused of child rape and was released after serving 35 years for a crime he never committed either.
  Sad to say I feel race had a lot to do in many of these cases... it was an era where people where used as scapegoats.. accused in a rush to judgment. Unfortunately, I believe many African Americans fell into this category and between the cracks of the legal system. Much more so than others.
  Every time I hear about one of these cases I'm saddened and stunned that it has taken so long for innocence to be found. How do you give someone back 35, 28 or even 10 years..? You can't..
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  1. 12/17/2009 8:08 PM Jesus Crisis wrote:
     Sadly true....
     
     In a couple of ways I was lucky - to be "white" and only to serve 11 years.
     Shitty things to feel lucky about....
     
     
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     1. 12/17/2009 8:53 PM anon wrote:
        very true.... a shitty thing for you to feel lucky about is right.
        
        Makes me wonder how much more time you would have had to serve if you hadn't been white? This is how broken the system is. Inequities in representation for those who are not rich, who rely on the State to provide "equal representation"... which is far from equal as you well know. Then throw in race and you have a big mess..
        
        Sorry for the long comments.. but this whole topic really provokes me. Because we are suppose to have a system that is often envied by other countries.
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• 12/17/2009 8:42 PM Anonymous wrote:
  I just went and looked this up... because I was curious about how many cases they have had so far like this.. and the current total posted by the Innnocence Project web page of DNA cases alone is 248... 149 of which are African American... over 50 % of the total. I had already suspected it would be quite high knowing our system of justice. But I don't think this counts overruled convictions without DNA evidence considered.. but not absolutely sure of that. If it doesn't, then the total would be much higher... and I know this is not representative of all the cases even pending.
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  To me it says two important things.. that the justice system in the US is quite broken when it comes to representing the poor or ethnic in criminal cases... (because I assume many of these cases relied on state provided defense.. like yours) and Two.. that the death penalty should be completely abolished nation-wide as inhumane.. merely on the grounds that innocent people may be killed for crimes they'd never committed. And I'm not even taking in any other moral arguments on this issue... but just the fact that if someone is put to death and found wrongfully convicted there is no going back.
  
  This and the cases mentioned and posted before of how convicted sex offenders are treated after release really bothers me. They shouldn't have to live under a bridge or be homeless like in Florida... how does it serve society to treat them in this way?
  
  Anyway.. it has me thinking about the inequity of things...
  Thank you for posting this... it's gotten me thinking about something more important than my own small world.
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  1. 12/18/2009 8:18 AM Elena wrote:
     Interesting that only DNA is needed by the Innocence Project to prove innocence.
     What happens when there is absolutely no DNA as evidence to convict and the jury finds one guilty for false testimony?
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• 1/14/2010 2:08 AM DNA Facts wrote:
  I feel happy about this news but the mere fact that he still in prison for 28 years makes me sad how that 28 years of his life was wasted. But eventually, let just appreciate that it wasn't wasted a lifetime because he is saved now.
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