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Ask HN: Just got an innocent man out of prison. What now?

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Re: Ask HN: Just got an innocent man out of prison. What now?

#71
My standard advice to young people without a career and the unemployed is this: consider either a job at a small printing company, or be a craigslist "broker" using their advanced search features.

The first will get you into a high-tech career over time, and the second will be interesting to those who want to be self-employed.

Re: Ask HN: Just got an innocent man out of prison. What now?

#72
post #10

I wonder if Dateline would have interest in updating his story, and if there might be any compensation for something like that. I'm not involved in TV production, but you would think if they had enough interest to report on his conviction (which happens every day) there would be an even better story regarding his release.

Dateline has asked me to sit down for an interview with Keith Morrison. I may do that, but there will be no compensation involved.

Why not ask for compensation to a charity to helps people in this situation?

Re: Ask HN: Just got an innocent man out of prison. What now?

#74
You succeeded in getting a lawyer to take on this case(okay, he was your father, but still.) Now try doing the same with getting a top notch PR person with experience getting television exposure.

1) Reach out to top PR consultants

2) Explain this story to them in a paragraph

3) Tell them you need their help in helping get his story out

4) Big part of getting his story out would involve pushing his gofundme page.

Re: Ask HN: Just got an innocent man out of prison. What now?

#75
post #4

What'd he do in the military? He may be able to leverage those skills for immediate employment.

He was an infantryman. Kicked down doors in Iraq going room-to-room searching for insurgents. Until the charges are formally dismissed, it's hard to imagine any employer will actually be willing to hire him. The DA's office is really making his life hard by refusing to just immediately stipulate that he's an innocent man.

Could he re-enlist? He's not technically a felon if he's exonerated.

Re: Ask HN: Just got an innocent man out of prison. What now?

#79

Hollywood, maybe? Netflix made a series on Steven Avery that created an enormous amount of attention to that case. Him being in the army, coming back to his country, being arrested for a activity that he didn't do, spending 11 years behind the bars and finally being released as an innocent man is a great story to tell. Since hollywood is running out of stories these days that could be an option. Hell, maybe Netflix w…

It might be a naive question, do you know if Steven Avery or his family came away from those TV shows with some money?

Re: Ask HN: Just got an innocent man out of prison. What now?

#80
post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Dateline piece came out right after Ray's conviction. I just happened to see it 5 years later. It portrayed him as a craven killer who was brought to justice only through the Herculean efforts of police and prosecutors who wouldn't let the absence of any physical evidence stop them from getting a conviction.

Goddamn that's scary that this man's exoneration depended on a chance viewing of Dateline...Props to you...my initial reaction to this post (I hadn't seen your other appeals to HN) were that this sounded too good to be true, but even the stories and accounts about Mr. Jennings that were pro-status-quo were alarmingly flimsy. I don't have faith that the justice system will naturally get things right, but I do have a g…

Sadly, this case has deeply shaken my confidence in the criminal-justice system.
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