Wrongfully convicted man denied pardon

[Aharami]

he's not in jail anymore. he's free, but he cant get the 20K a year from the state since the pardon was denied.

The governor is a coward

 

[Aharami]

and i hope the grandma died a very slow and painful death.

 

[Ronin]

Originally posted by: Aharami
he's not in jail anymore. he's free, but he cant get the 20K a year from the state since the pardon was denied.

The governor is a coward

Approve the pardon and take it out of the Governor's wages.

 

[dxkj]

Originally posted by: ironcrotch
He doesn't have to admit he's wrong cuz he was. You can't just keep the guy in jail, he's been in there for 25 years.

He isnt in jail..... he just isnt being "pardoned" which in this case, only gives him extra money.... not freedom


READ THE ARTICLE YOU POST, HE IS FREE< RELEASED IN NOVEMBER


That is why his attorney is waiting until 2009, to try to get the money for his client

 

[mercanucaribe]

The accusors didn't recant until now?

 

[eLiu]

yet another reason to hate mike easley...

what a godawful governor, good grief

I don't think he's done anything positive for my state

edit: i wonder if part of his decision is that NC is having some serious budget problems (many due to his spending policies)...$500k isn't exactly a good number to add to the bill

 

[Icanoutsmokeany1]

On a side note, if you are wrongfully imprisoned, you only get 20K a year for each year you go to prison?

That's more than a 20K a year mess up on the states behalf. You get sent to prison for rape and you didn't do it then if they find out your innocent, you get 20K for each YEAR? Should be 20K a month, as bad as prison is.

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: thujone

Originally posted by: acemcmac
I think the people who recanted their testimony are the ones who belong behind bars :|

That's just sick, but its the world we live in

they were little girls.. age 5 and 6 that were apparently raped by their 9 year old cousin. it was their grandma who told them to accuse the man who's now in prison. hence their recant... which i don't think they deserve to be blamed for.

Very sh!tty situation for these children. However they were 5 and six in 1981. Surely when they were adults they realized that there was an innocent man in prison. But you never know . People who been through abuse like that may put up a big black hole in their memory and not try to remember.

 

[LeiZaK]

Originally posted by: Ronin
I'm sure it'll go to the Supreme Court. At that point, maybe the moron will get kicked in the face.

fixed

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: Icanoutsmokeany1
On a side note, if you are wrongfully imprisoned, you only get 20K a year for each year you go to prison?

That's more than a 20K a year mess up on the states behalf. You get sent to prison for rape and you didn't do it then if they find out your innocent, you get 20K for each YEAR? Should be 20K a month, as bad as prison is.

:roll: our prisons arent bad at all. hell in CA you can get a sex change on the state's nickel while serving time. must really suck for them!!

 

[rabiesdvm]

The News & Observer article about this went a little further than CNN's. N&O link

In the N&O article it said:

A synopsis of the report by M.A. White, assistant special agent in charge, said testimony by the girls was consistent with the testimony of medical personnel who examined them. It also said that Smith, one of the victims and her mother all had trichomoniasis, a sexually transmitted disease.

The agent wrote that the mothers of the victims believed their recantations were not truthful.

The report said one of the prosecutors taped a telephone conversation between the two victims during which one did not know she was being recorded. For most of the conversation, the report said, one woman tried to convince the other that Smith did not sexually assault them, but the woman did not recant then.

I bet that Easley thought that there was some doubt about things so he did not give the pardon. At the time this was going on he did give a pardon to a man whose conviction for rape was overturned after he was cleared by DNA evidence.

As for the state's budget problems vs. the cash for this guy, the freeking legislature just gave $400,000 (or something like that) to a teapot museum in the mountains. Yep, there is money for a teapot museum but not for this guy. You just have to love the legislature's priorities.

 

[amdhunter]

Well the accused is a black man, so I figure the governor is thinking he will eventually commit a similar crime and return.