Solitary Jailhouse Lawyer Argues His Way Out of Prison
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Solitary Jailhouse Lawyer Argues His Way Out of Prison
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#2This is a great story of someone fighting against oppressive forces to gain his freedom. I really hope he wins his lawsuit against them, this being one of those cases where he really deserves something for the time lost. As an aside, I can see this being made into a movie already.
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#3Warms my cold leftist heart.
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#4This really highlights the unreliability of eyewitness testimony (well, and corruption in the DA's office and police department, but that's another story).
Perhaps one upside to the coming ubiquity of cameras is an increased availability in actual evidence for crimes.
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#5I hope he does become an attorney.
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#6What are the typical consequences to the corrupt prosecutor and police department in a case like this?
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#7What are the typical consequences to the corrupt prosecutor and police department in a case like this?
Unless they blatantly broke the law in some provable way, probably nothing. Though as with the guy in this case, he can sue the State/City for wrongful imprisonment and other issues.
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#8What are the typical consequences to the corrupt prosecutor and police department in a case like this?
Unless they blatantly broke the law in some provable way, probably nothing. Though as with the guy in this case, he can sue the State/City for wrongful imprisonment and other issues.
So the guilty party suffers nothing, and the taxpayer foots the bill...
Re: Solitary Jailhouse Lawyer Argues His Way Out of Prison
#9This really highlights the unreliability of eyewitness testimony (well, and corruption in the DA's office and police department, but that's another story). Perhaps one upside to the coming ubiquity of cameras is an increased availability in actual evidence for crimes.
Well,
While unbiased eye-witness testimony might be well unreliable, the story mostly shows DA and corruption.
He got out of jail by showing the people who testified against him were quite biased indeed - They were "motivated" to act by police and DA threats and the DA had systematically lied concerning this process...
It's also rather heart-rending to read how he had to engage in fraud to discover the truth and naturally this fraud was then held against his appeal....
Re: Solitary Jailhouse Lawyer Argues His Way Out of Prison
#10This is a great story of someone fighting against oppressive forces to gain his freedom. I really hope he wins his lawsuit against them, this being one of those cases where he really deserves something for the time lost. As an aside, I can see this being made into a movie already.
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