26 Years Later, DNA Clears Man of Rapes

[vshah]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend

Originally posted by: HumblePie

Originally posted by: Lonyo

Originally posted by: Brutuskend

Originally posted by: Rudee

Originally posted by: mryellow2
God, that's so horrible. How can he ever be repaid for 26 years of lost life?

From what I gathered, there is still evidence he did some of the rapes, but not all of them, thus he should still be in jail IMHO.

Hence the Mixed feelings.

He commited a maximum of 3 crimes (ie: convicted of 5, ruled out of 2), and served 26 years in prison. I think that's fairly much justice done, since he may have been let out early if he'd been convicted of 3, plus there's no definite trustworthy evidence he did commit the other 3.

He was exonerated of all charges because each woman was raped in the same way. The real Raper had an MO and followed it every time. Which is why they threw all those cases at him but 2 of the original women couldn't say for sure if he was the man they recognized. Prosecuters said 5 versus 2 saying he is was good enough and it was to get him put in prison. However, they were all wrong. The fact is, the DNA testing from the 2 who were raped by the same guy ALL them were raped by and in the same fasion for each of them proved he didn't do it.

Justice was not served here as the real perp has potentially been scott free this entire time while some innocent man who happened to look similar enough to him took the fall.

However, did the rapes STOP after he was put away?
If they didn't, it seems they would have continued to look for the perp and it would have also cast quite a bit of doubt on his guilt. If they DID, well, just how innocent WAS he?

the "real" rapist might not have been an idiot, and moved/stopped raping...thats one possibility

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: vshah

Originally posted by: Brutuskend

Originally posted by: HumblePie

Originally posted by: Lonyo

Originally posted by: Brutuskend

Originally posted by: Rudee

Originally posted by: mryellow2
God, that's so horrible. How can he ever be repaid for 26 years of lost life?

From what I gathered, there is still evidence he did some of the rapes, but not all of them, thus he should still be in jail IMHO.

Hence the Mixed feelings.

He commited a maximum of 3 crimes (ie: convicted of 5, ruled out of 2), and served 26 years in prison. I think that's fairly much justice done, since he may have been let out early if he'd been convicted of 3, plus there's no definite trustworthy evidence he did commit the other 3.

He was exonerated of all charges because each woman was raped in the same way. The real Raper had an MO and followed it every time. Which is why they threw all those cases at him but 2 of the original women couldn't say for sure if he was the man they recognized. Prosecuters said 5 versus 2 saying he is was good enough and it was to get him put in prison. However, they were all wrong. The fact is, the DNA testing from the 2 who were raped by the same guy ALL them were raped by and in the same fasion for each of them proved he didn't do it.

Justice was not served here as the real perp has potentially been scott free this entire time while some innocent man who happened to look similar enough to him took the fall.

However, did the rapes STOP after he was put away?
If they didn't, it seems they would have continued to look for the perp and it would have also cast quite a bit of doubt on his guilt. If they DID, well, just how innocent WAS he?

the "real" rapist might not have been an idiot, and moved/stopped raping...thats one possibility

Possible, but not probable.
Serial Rapists like pedos, seldom stop until they are caught.

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: DorkBoy

Originally posted by: Nitemare
Jurors that convicted him with all the contradicting evidence should take his place.

Why?, he raped, not them idiot.

Evidently not

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: bradruth

Originally posted by: Josh
he's def. got to bring suit against the state...win millions.

Yeah, that rapist definitely deserves millions of dollars.

Did you even read the article? DNA evidence was only available for 2 of the 5 rapes, and he matched neither. Prior to this two other rape convictions were thrown out when the women recanted on their identification.

So the only way this guy could be a rapist is if there was another copy cat rapist out there that just happened to look a lot like him, or he was in fact the copy cat and looks a lot like the original guy. That doesn't seem like a plan most gas station attendants, that barely speak english and have a wife and family, would come up with. It sure would be a hell of a coincidence.

 

[tk149]

DNA evidence may not be 100% conclusive

 

[NiKeFiDO]

p&n

leave my OT forum clear of this rubbish and bring on the nef!

 

[meltdown75]

that DNA is one crazy guy.

 

[thujone]

i also heard this morning on CNN that in october florida will be throwing out all old DNA evidence. essentially denying this technology to thousands of prisoners it could possibly set free.

this seems horribly unjust... but i guess a state can only be sued for wrongful imprisonment so many times. i don't think this is the solution for that though.

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: Lonyo

Originally posted by: Phoenix86

Originally posted by: Nitemare
Jurors that convicted him with all the contradicting evidence should take his place.

Would you want to serve as a juror if that was the penalty for being wrong?

"I'm about to be tried by 12 men too stupid to get out of jury service."

Ding ding ding...we have a winner

99% of all jurors are out of work welfare recipients or mentally challenged outcasts who couldn't or didn't want to get out of jury duty. The other 1% are those fine men and women that think it is their civic duty and survive the DA...

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: Rudee

Originally posted by: mryellow2
God, that's so horrible. How can he ever be repaid for 26 years of lost life?

From what I gathered, there is still evidence he did some of the rapes, but not all of them, thus he should still be in jail IMHO.

Not until he is fairly tried and convicted by a jury of his peers basen on the evidence at hand...

 

[OffTopic1]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend

Originally posted by: vshah

Originally posted by: Brutuskend

Originally posted by: HumblePie

Originally posted by: Lonyo

Originally posted by: Brutuskend

Originally posted by: Rudee

Originally posted by: mryellow2
God, that's so horrible. How can he ever be repaid for 26 years of lost life?

From what I gathered, there is still evidence he did some of the rapes, but not all of them, thus he should still be in jail IMHO.

Hence the Mixed feelings.

He commited a maximum of 3 crimes (ie: convicted of 5, ruled out of 2), and served 26 years in prison. I think that's fairly much justice done, since he may have been let out early if he'd been convicted of 3, plus there's no definite trustworthy evidence he did commit the other 3.

He was exonerated of all charges because each woman was raped in the same way. The real Raper had an MO and followed it every time. Which is why they threw all those cases at him but 2 of the original women couldn't say for sure if he was the man they recognized. Prosecuters said 5 versus 2 saying he is was good enough and it was to get him put in prison. However, they were all wrong. The fact is, the DNA testing from the 2 who were raped by the same guy ALL them were raped by and in the same fasion for each of them proved he didn't do it.

Justice was not served here as the real perp has potentially been scott free this entire time while some innocent man who happened to look similar enough to him took the fall.

However, did the rapes STOP after he was put away?
If they didn't, it seems they would have continued to look for the perp and it would have also cast quite a bit of doubt on his guilt. If they DID, well, just how innocent WAS he?

the "real" rapist might not have been an idiot, and moved/stopped raping...thats one possibility

Possible, but not probable.
Serial Rapists like pedos, seldom stop until they are caught.

Seldom but it can happen.
Or died from natural cause, drugs, alcohol, fight, accident, killed by would be victim.