I would have demanded WAY more.

[Pex]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/03/22/dna.rapecase.ap/index.html


stuff like this pisses me off. btw i live near kp.

 

[blackdogdeek]

Originally posted by: Pex
http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/03/22/dna.rapecase.ap/index.html


stuff like this pisses me off. btw i live near kp.

which aspect bothered you?

EDIT: oh nvm i just reread the topic title.

 

[maziwanka]

i couldnt imagine losing 15 years of my life like that....

 

[notfred]

I wonder how many ATOTers would have argued for the death penalty for this "disguting waste of flesh rapist asshole" or whatever they could have come up with to call him.

 

[JoeKing]

that's the risk, and trust, we place with our justice system.

 

[Pex]

Originally posted by: blackdogdeek

Originally posted by: Pex
http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/03/22/dna.rapecase.ap/index.html


stuff like this pisses me off. btw i live near kp.

which aspect bothered you?

they fact they made him cofess to something he didnt do and he spent 1/4 of his life in jail innocent. and he only got 2.3

 

[MaxDSP]

wonder how much his lawyer's gonna take from that

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: notfred
I wonder how many ATOTers would have argued for the death penalty for this "disguting waste of flesh rapist asshole" or whatever they could have come up with to call him.

grom1985

 

[Whisper]

Originally posted by: maziwanka
i couldnt imagine losing 15 years of my life like that....

Agreed. He's 44, so that means that he went in around what, 29? Good lord, that's prime-of-your-life material right there. I'm sure he's just happy to finally be free, but yeah, even I might be just a wheee bit bitter after all of that.

Then again, it does make you wonder exactly how they coerced a confession out of an innocent man. I'm definitely not denying that it happened, but curious as to what exactly went on. I know that it'd take a lot for me to admit guilt for something that I know I didn't do. But at the same time, I can't say it wouldn't happen if I've been kept in a little room for like four days straight without any kind of break.

 

[Passions]

After lawyer fees and taxes, the poor dude will prolly get like $500k.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

WTF!?!?!?!?

"We still don't think we did anything wrong," said Joseph J. Pizonka, the Upper Merion solicitor. "But we got to thinking, 'He spent 15 years of his life in prison. What is that worth?' "

what a crappy attitude.

 

[Nitemare]

He should not have confessed.

That being said if I were the judge, I'd give him a baseball bat and put both him and the coerces in the room together for 5 minutes

 

[GoodToGo]

I would have not demanded extra money but asked the people who coerced him to spend 15 years in jail. Then maybe people who uphold the law might learn to respect it as well.

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: Passions
After lawyer fees and taxes, the poor dude will prolly get like $500k.

unless it is settled out of court, awards aren't taxable.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

"We still don't think we did anything wrong," said Joseph J. Pizonka, the Upper Merion solicitor. "But we got to thinking, 'He spent 15 years of his life in prison. What is that worth?' "



Yeah, right. Towns give out 2.3 million because they have hearts of gold.

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
"We still don't think we did anything wrong," said Joseph J. Pizonka, the Upper Merion solicitor. "But we got to thinking, 'He spent 15 years of his life in prison. What is that worth?' "



Yeah, right. Towns give out 2.3 million because they have hearts of gold.

Upper Merion is one of the richest suburbs in the country. They can afford it...

 

[gopunk]

seems reasonable... usually this kind of stuff happens to people who weren't going that far in life to begin with anyways

 

[Lonyo]

I think they should send the people who co-erced the confession to jail, not for 15 years, but for a period for perverting the course of justice. Criminals get it, why not officers, (if they force a false confession)?

 

[Vic]

I feel sorry for him, and I find this kind of treatment by our "justice" system deplorable and inexcuseable, but I feel that he should not have confessed. It is well-known that unscrupulous police officers frequently seek to coerce confessions from suspects by telling the suspect that they "just want to know the truth" and "if you tell us that you did it, we'll let you go", etc. IMO, falling for such obvious lies should be a crime in itself.

 

[Pepsi90919]

this disguting waste of flesh rapist asshole should get the death penalty.

 

[vi edit]

Luckily he doesn't live in a state that has a cap on what they give out. I think Illionis, which has one of the highest false accusation rates in the nation has a cap of $500,000. Others have set rates like $15 or $25 a day for each day of captivitiy.

 

[Imdmn04]

Does he have to pay tax on that?

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
this disguting waste of flesh rapist asshole should get the death penalty.

hahaha

 

[rgwalt]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Luckily he doesn't live in a state that has a cap on what they give out. I think Illionis, which has one of the highest false accusation rates in the nation has a cap of $500,000. Others have set rates like $15 or $25 a day for each day of captivitiy.

That kind of cap is rediculous, but I suppose you have to set a limit. 15 years of my life is probably going to be worth WAY more than $500K, or even $2 million. At $25 per day, you are looking at $140,000.

I guess the state can never give you back your lost time, which is the most valuable thing of all. However, I sure ask heck would expect more than what they give people.

15 years...

R

 

[her209]

Why don't they just jail the detectives and their family members?