Damn...

Better man then me.

Just because he was innocent in this case doesn't mean he didn't do something else he didn't get caught for. People who come in contact with police about one crime are almost invariably involved in. . . wait a minute, he's white. The hell?

So wait, the dog scent evidence was discredited, the main witness recanted and said she was actually sleeping with the lead investigator and he still went to jail....FOR 27 YEARS?

At no point was there any sort of audit or follow up by the justice system to realize that, hey, maybe they just got the wrong guy? He's guilty, evidence be damned, case closed?

I bet not a single person involved in this tragedy will be punished in any way whatsoever. Disgusting.

I honestly cannot imagine coming out of that experience without anything but a sort of bitterness against society and mankind that I can't even really comprehend. I'm sure the million bucks is nice but even that seems a pretty weak compensation against losing half your life in a cage.

I dunno, I don't think I'd be singing any tributes to my country afterwards.

Confabulat: I honestly cannot imagine coming out of that experience without anything but a sort of bitterness against society and mankind that I can't even really comprehend. I'm sure the million bucks is nice but even that seems a pretty weak compensation against losing half your life in a cage.

I dunno, I don't think I'd be singing any tributes to my country afterwards.

I wonder how they arrived at the number for compensation. Was it based on how much he would have earned during his time in jail? That works out to $50,000 for every year he was incarcerated....which seems like a pittance considering the emotional pain and trauma from having your life destroyed because some people were too lazy/incompetent/malicious to do their jobs in the first place.

He could've been a sketchy guy to begin with, or else he wouldn't have been a suspect (I hope). Fate is a tricky thing...maybe it all worked out in the end for the best.

Man-de-la! Man-de-la!

miss diminutive: Confabulat: I honestly cannot imagine coming out of that experience without anything but a sort of bitterness against society and mankind that I can't even really comprehend. I'm sure the million bucks is nice but even that seems a pretty weak compensation against losing half your life in a cage.

I dunno, I don't think I'd be singing any tributes to my country afterwards.

I wonder how they arrived at the number for compensation. Was it based on how much he would have earned during his time in jail? That works out to $50,000 for every year he was incarcerated....which seems like a pittance considering the emotional pain and trauma from having your life destroyed because some people were too lazy/incompetent/malicious to do their jobs in the first place.

Many jurisdictions have legislated caps on compensation. Which is totaly BS if you ask me. I'd take that million get a good lawyer and sue as high as I could go. Frankly $1 million per year is more appropriate if you ask me.

You've been wrongly imprisoned for murder for 27 years, what do you want to do next?

Go to Disneyland?

Sing the national anthem at a Tampa Bay Rays game

Oh.

Confabulat: I honestly cannot imagine coming out of that experience without anything but a sort of bitterness against society and mankind that I can't even really comprehend. I'm sure the million bucks is nice but even that seems a pretty weak compensation against losing half your life in a cage.

I dunno, I don't think I'd be singing any tributes to my country afterwards.

amen to that, i'd be seriously bitter. yet i've seen freed men on TV multiple times and the poor bastards are just so happy to be out of the hell-hole nightmare they were in. so glad there are groups like Project Innocence.

It rained all night in St. Pete and it was the Rays vs the Cleveland Indians. I imagine he sang to bigger crowds on his cell block.

miss diminutive: So wait, the dog scent evidence was discredited, the main witness recanted and said she was actually sleeping with the lead investigator and he still went to jail....FOR 27 YEARS?

At no point was there any sort of audit or follow up by the justice system to realize that, hey, maybe they just got the wrong guy? He's guilty, evidence be damned, case closed?

I bet not a single person involved in this tragedy will be punished in any way whatsoever. Disgusting.

I think the dog was swatted on the nose with a rolled up newspaper.

Another reason the US justice system is a laughing stock

I'd like to crawl through 100 yards of sh*t, strip off my prison grey, walk into a bank wearing the warden's clothes and withdraw all the money he left there through my shenanigans. Then head down to Zihuatanejo for Coronas and salsa verde.

Confabulat: It rained all night in St. Pete and it was the Rays vs the Cleveland Indians. I imagine he sang to bigger crowds on his cell block.

Well there is a bridge of certain death if I remember correctly.

miss diminutive: So wait, the dog scent evidence was discredited, the main witness recanted and said she was actually sleeping with the lead investigator and he still went to jail....FOR 27 YEARS?

At no point was there any sort of audit or follow up by the justice system to realize that, hey, maybe they just got the wrong guy? He's guilty, evidence be damned, case closed?

I bet not a single person involved in this tragedy will be punished in any way whatsoever. Disgusting.

miss diminutive: So wait, the dog scent evidence was discredited, the main witness recanted and said she was actually sleeping with the lead investigator and he still went to jail....FOR 27 YEARS?

At no point was there any sort of audit or follow up by the justice system to realize that, hey, maybe they just got the wrong guy? He's guilty, evidence be damned, case closed?

I bet not a single person involved in this tragedy will be punished in any way whatsoever. Disgusting.

I guess you haven't read The Count Of Monte Cristo.

Confabulat: I honestly cannot imagine coming out of that experience without anything but a sort of bitterness against society and mankind that I can't even really comprehend. I'm sure the million bucks is nice but even that seems a pretty weak compensation against losing half your life in a cage.

I dunno, I don't think I'd be singing any tributes to my country afterwards.

Eh. Maybe he actually did it and now feels he's getting off light? Exoneration only requires re-establishing reasonable doubt, iirc, probably the preponderance of evidence still points to him.

baka-san: Damn...

Better man then me.

No, less retarded.

I would have asked for $40k a year and a ticket to Oregon.

doglover: miss diminutive: So wait, the dog scent evidence was discredited, the main witness recanted and said she was actually sleeping with the lead investigator and he still went to jail....FOR 27 YEARS?

At no point was there any sort of audit or follow up by the justice system to realize that, hey, maybe they just got the wrong guy? He's guilty, evidence be damned, case closed?

I bet not a single person involved in this tragedy will be punished in any way whatsoever. Disgusting.

I guess you haven't read The Count Of Monte Cristo Crisco, by Alexandree Dumbass.

Oh I've read it. The butler did it.

shanrick: Just because he was innocent in this case doesn't mean he didn't do something else he didn't get caught for. People who come in contact with police about one crime are almost invariably involved in. . . wait a minute, he's white. The hell?

Damn, that was hilarious!

The Rays? He has already fallen in with a bad element

TommyymmoT: baka-san: Damn...

Better man then me.

No, less retarded.

Oops, sorry, I meant to say, just more retarded than you.
You're still a retard though, if you think that somebody singing the praises of a system, that in all practical terms murdered him, stole most of his productive life, is a cool thing.

His forgiveness, only exacerbates the problem.

In jail for 24 years? Given what I ask for?

... gimmie a permanent VIP pass to the Bunny Ranch and a respectable per diem.

wildcardjack: I would have asked for $40k a year and a ticket to Oregon.

I would have asked for enough money to buy the team.

miss diminutive: doglover: miss diminutive: So wait, the dog scent evidence was discredited, the main witness recanted and said she was actually sleeping with the lead investigator and he still went to jail....FOR 27 YEARS?

At no point was there any sort of audit or follow up by the justice system to realize that, hey, maybe they just got the wrong guy? He's guilty, evidence be damned, case closed?

I bet not a single person involved in this tragedy will be punished in any way whatsoever. Disgusting.

I guess you haven't read The Count Of Monte Cristo Crisco, by Alexandree Dumbass.

Oh I've read it. The butler did it.

It was actually based on a true story. Only in the real story the men were unrepentant and the guy was killed by the fourth. Also there was no melodramatic greek girl, undead son, and probbaly a lot more sodomy.

TommyymmoT: TommyymmoT: baka-san: Damn...

Better man then me.

No, less retarded.

Oops, sorry, I meant to say, just more retarded than you.
You're still a retard though, if you think that somebody singing the praises of a system, that in all practical terms murdered him, stole most of his productive life, is a cool thing.

His forgiveness, only exacerbates the problem.

I thought you were just calling him/her out on a grammatical mistake at first, then I read your second post. Who exactly are you arguing to? You sound like my girlfriend on her period just looking for a stupid fight. Someone have a little sand in their vagina?

Please tell me this is just a weak attempt at a troll.

TommyymmoT: wildcardjack: I would have asked for $40k a year and a ticket to Oregon.

I would have asked for enough money to buy the team.

He said he wanted 40k.

miss diminutive: I wonder how they arrived at the number for compensation. Was it based on how much he would have earned during his time in jail? That works out to $50,000 for every year he was incarcerated....which seems like a pittance considering the emotional pain and trauma from having your life destroyed because some people were too lazy/incompetent/malicious to do their jobs in the first place.

Do they take taxes out? I wonder if they take it out as if he earned $50K/year, or as if he earned $1.35 million in one year.

Confabulat: I honestly cannot imagine coming out of that experience without anything but a sort of bitterness against society and mankind that I can't even really comprehend. I'm sure the million bucks is nice but even that seems a pretty weak compensation against losing half your life in a cage.

I dunno, I don't think I'd be singing any tributes to my country afterwards.

SO. MUCH. THIS.

The first thing I'd want after getting out of prison (guilty or not) would be a blow job


/from a girl

You know, if you put the convicted to death immediately after the sentence, the prosecution would be more careful about convicting the innocent. Now they feel they can correct their mistakes 27 years later and no harm done..

Jim_Callahan: Confabulat: I honestly cannot imagine coming out of that experience without anything but a sort of bitterness against society and mankind that I can't even really comprehend. I'm sure the million bucks is nice but even that seems a pretty weak compensation against losing half your life in a cage.

I dunno, I don't think I'd be singing any tributes to my country afterwards.

Eh. Maybe he actually did it and now feels he's getting off light? Exoneration only requires re-establishing reasonable doubt, iirc, probably the preponderance of evidence still points to him.

Perhaps. And, perhaps, if your grandmother had wheels, she'd be a go-kart.
There's a reason the words "speculation" and "expectoration" sound so similar.
Gentlemen don't do either one in public.

TommyymmoT: wildcardjack: I would have asked for $40k a year and a ticket to Oregon.

I would have asked for enough money to buy the team.

You would have asked for eleven dollars?

And I bet this is coming from a DA who boasts that he has 100% conviction rates.


miss diminutive: So wait, the dog scent evidence was discredited, the main witness recanted and said she was actually sleeping with the lead investigator and he still went to jail....FOR 27 YEARS?

At no point was there any sort of audit or follow up by the justice system to realize that, hey, maybe they just got the wrong guy? He's guilty, evidence be damned, case closed?

I bet not a single person involved in this tragedy will be punished in any way whatsoever. Disgusting.

This is why there SHOULD NOT BE a death penalty. Anywhere. Ever.

And I will not listen to anyone's arguments to the contrary.

Plus, let's consider that the actual murderer for this crime...was never caught or convicted and probably went on to commit more crimes while an innocent man rotted for the crime. The only saving grace is that he could be let out, and should be given everything he wants from here on out.

Including that lifetime pass to the Bunny Ranch.

LovingTeacher: The first thing I'd want after getting out of prison (guilty or not) would be a blow job

/from a girl

Get it from a woman instead. Less chance of you going back to prison.

You can sample his album online. I don't want to buy it. But maybe he'll do fine on the anthem.

Yet Christina Aguilera remains free.

Where is the justice?

Maybe he'll be singing it ironically.

miss diminutive: So wait, the dog scent evidence was discredited, the main witness recanted and said she was actually sleeping with the lead investigator and he still went to jail....FOR 27 YEARS?

At no point was there any sort of audit or follow up by the justice system to realize that, hey, maybe they just got the wrong guy? He's guilty, evidence be damned, case closed?

I bet not a single person involved in this tragedy will be punished in any way whatsoever. Disgusting.

Look at TX if you want to see some examples of a system that is more concerned with putting someone in jail than it is with actually getting the right person. Court-appointed attorney showed up drunk to court? Don't matter. Officer called you a racial slur during the arrest, after stopping you with no reasonable suspicion, and detained you for 2 hours until a dog could come and sniff around the vehicle, then he couldn't even find anything but arrested you anyway? Oh well. During sentencing the judge talked about religion and your need to find it and how some time in the slammer should help you find God? Court of Appeals don't have time for your shiat.

maybe he WAS guilty and they just freed an innocent man!

Confabulat: I honestly cannot imagine coming out of that experience without anything but a sort of bitterness against society and mankind that I can't even really comprehend. I'm sure the million bucks is nice but even that seems a pretty weak compensation against losing half your life in a cage.

Hopefully we aren't saying the same thing about George Zimmerman in a few decades.

Confabulat: I honestly cannot imagine coming out of that experience without anything but a sort of bitterness against society and mankind that I can't even really comprehend. I'm sure the million bucks is nice but even that seems a pretty weak compensation against losing half your life in a cage.

I was gonna say: $1.35M seems a bit small for compensation for THE SYSTEM TOTALLY GOING TITS-UP ON YOU... :P

Mark Ratner: He could've been a sketchy guy to begin with, or else he wouldn't have been a suspect (I hope). Fate is a tricky thing...maybe it all worked out in the end for the best.

Wow...I doubt he feels as cavalier in how his life worked out for the best. Hope you have no dealings with the "justice" system. It isn't nearly as TV as people think.

Gyrfalcon: This is why there SHOULD NOT BE a death penalty. Anywhere. Ever.

And I will not listen to anyone's arguments to the contrary.

Plus, let's consider that the actual murderer for this crime...was never caught or convicted and probably went on to commit more crimes while an innocent man rotted for the crime. The only saving grace is that he could be let out, and should be given everything he wants from here on out.

Including that lifetime pass to the Bunny Ranch.

THIS. I tend to lean conservative but any one with half a brain needs to admit that the last thing a govt should have the power to do is legally kill someone. The myriad of mistakes and pitfalls in the justice system should make it clear as day that the death sentence can NOT be doled out justly or fairly so it should not be used at all.

Hilarious that most conservatives cry that the govt can't properly manage healthcare but they should be able to correctly administer a death penalty? LOL

I would kill those who were responsible and still alive for locking me up.

The_Time_Master: I would kill those who were responsible and still alive for locking me up.

TommyymmoT: His forgiveness, only exacerbates the problem.

Yes, because living out your remaining years in bitterness and anger works out well for everyone involved.

Not defending the judicial system that seemed to go out of its way to wrongly imprison him but his decision to NOT come out of this experience a bitter, angry shell of a human being is more of a testimony of the power of the human spirit to overcome seemingly insurmountable physical, emotional, and even spiritual obstacles than a glowing endorsement of a deeply flawed justice system.