Innocent Man Released From Prison After 34 Years

[werepossum]

I don't think you can even put a value on ones life. His youth is gone. Who knows the horrors he endured while in prison. There is nothing in this world that can make amends for something like that.

I hope this woman who lied on him has suffered in mental anguish all these years knowing that she is a liar that took someone's youth away from them.

I seriously doubt she lost any sleep over this, and I very much support throwing her in prison for an equal amount of time - assuming she's even still alive.

Ought to be a rule, if the state wrong convicts someone they get the larger of three times median wage or three times their previous salary for every year, as unlike jobs prison is 24/7. Give him two thirds up front so that he can go crazy, then give him the rest on a yearly basis. At 54 he'd never have to work again. Also ought to be a rule that any wrongful conviction triggers an automatic justice department investigation on the debunked witnesses, cops AND prosecutors, with no applicable statute of limitations, to try to get a conviction on whomever caused this. The state doesn't commit such heinous acts, the people working for the state commit them.

It was 27 to life and when he would come up for a parole hearing he would proclaim his innocence to the Parole board. The parole board job wasn't to determine guild or innocence it was to determine if he was rehabilitated so since he was obviously not accepting the guild of his crime he committed he was denied parole. Took a lot of courage on his part to continue to maintain his innocence over all those years.

That's a good point. One party or the other ought to scoop up this man and groom him to run for Congress, for who among our elected officials has such integrity? Although having spent 34 years living with dishonest people he probably doesn't want to go to D.C. and repeat the experience . . .