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Jonathan Smith walks free after 21 years of wrongful imprisonment

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Re: Jonathan Smith walks free after 21 years of wrongful imprisonment

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Prosecutorial misconduct like that should be punished severely -- there needs to be accountability for destroying other people's lives.

Prosecutorial misconduct like that should be punished by garnishing the perp's wages to help pay for the giant wad of cash that the state must hand over to the victim in abject apology.

Re: Jonathan Smith walks free after 21 years of wrongful imprisonment

#13
post #2

Prosecutorial misconduct like that should be punished severely -- there needs to be accountability for destroying other people's lives.

Prosecutorial misconduct like that should be punished by garnishing the perp's wages to help pay for the giant wad of cash that the state must hand over to the victim in abject apology.

The prosecution should have to serve the same time their victim did

Re: Jonathan Smith walks free after 21 years of wrongful imprisonment

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post #2

Prosecutorial misconduct like that should be punished severely -- there needs to be accountability for destroying other people's lives.

IMO the only fair solution is their own incarceration for the equal number of days, but the only real consequence will be a slap on the wrist.

Notable cunt Annie Dookhan[0] is responsible for putting up to 40,000 innocent people in jail by falsifying DNA records for the Massachusetts state AG. Over 21,000 cases have already been dropped. Her punishment? 3 years.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Dookhan

Re: Jonathan Smith walks free after 21 years of wrongful imprisonment

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Ms Haddaway made a secret deal with the prosecutors and the prosecutors did not reveal this. But did she lie?

What this article forgets to mention is that Ms Haddaway wore a wire and got Jonathan Smith on tape that he committed the murder in order to get $60000 [1]. Here's part of the dialog for reader's convenience:

"[BH:]Why were you in that field with blood all over ya? And they take, I seen ya goin’up the road that day, you know it? And you had a blue coat on and Ray [Andrews] and you both had huntin’hats on. And then when I come back by there and you were in that cornfield and you said that blood come off a dog, but I think that you held her and David [Faulkner] killed her or one of you three done it.

[JS:]They never found out yet have they?

[BH:]I know, that’s why I want to know ‘fore I die. I seen ya, did I ever tell anybody? You know I ain’t gonna tell on ya, goddamn, you’re my blood. I just wanted to know if you done it. I didn’t really think you did. I think crazy David did

[JS:]It’s a secret. It’s a secret when one person knows[.] It aint [sic] a secret when two people know.

[BH:]Well, the three of you know.

[JS:]Right, there’s only two left.

[BH:]It was you and Ray and David.

[JS:]Ray wasn’t there until after it was over.

[BH:]Where was he?

[JS:]Down the road.

[BH:]Ray was right with you in the goddamn field.

[JS:]Yeah. That was after it was all done with.

...

[BH:] Tell me. I ain’t gonna tell nobody, I just want to know (inaudible).

[JS:]He didn’t do it.

[BH:]You done it.

[JS:]Uh huh.

[BH:]You said you did it before. Why did you kill her? I thought she let you in there when you went fishin’[.]... What, you didn’t know her?

[JS:]I knew she had money.

[BH:]You knew she had money.

[JS:]She had money."

[1] https://www.courts.state.md.us/sites/default/files/unreporte...

Re: Jonathan Smith walks free after 21 years of wrongful imprisonment

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Ms Haddaway made a secret deal with the prosecutors and the prosecutors did not reveal this. But did she lie? What this article forgets to mention is that Ms Haddaway wore a wire and got Jonathan Smith on tape that he committed the murder in order to get $60000 [1]. Here's part of the dialog for reader's convenience: "[BH:]Why were you in that field with blood all over ya? And they take, I seen ya goin’up the road th…

I suspect at least half the people exonerated by the Innocence Project are in fact guilty. However, I think that sloppy police work should never be rewarded with a guilty verdict, even if it's likely the defendant is guilty.

Re: Jonathan Smith walks free after 21 years of wrongful imprisonment

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post #2

Prosecutorial misconduct like that should be punished severely -- there needs to be accountability for destroying other people's lives.

IMO the only fair solution is their own incarceration for the equal number of days, but the only real consequence will be a slap on the wrist. Notable cunt Annie Dookhan[0] is responsible for putting up to 40,000 innocent people in jail by falsifying DNA records for the Massachusetts state AG. Over 21,000 cases have already been dropped. Her punishment? 3 years. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Dookhan

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Re: Jonathan Smith walks free after 21 years of wrongful imprisonment

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Ms Haddaway made a secret deal with the prosecutors and the prosecutors did not reveal this. But did she lie? What this article forgets to mention is that Ms Haddaway wore a wire and got Jonathan Smith on tape that he committed the murder in order to get $60000 [1]. Here's part of the dialog for reader's convenience: "[BH:]Why were you in that field with blood all over ya? And they take, I seen ya goin’up the road th…

I suspect at least half the people exonerated by the Innocence Project are in fact guilty. However, I think that sloppy police work should never be rewarded with a guilty verdict, even if it's likely the defendant is guilty.

A prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich.

Re: Jonathan Smith walks free after 21 years of wrongful imprisonment

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Ms Haddaway made a secret deal with the prosecutors and the prosecutors did not reveal this. But did she lie? What this article forgets to mention is that Ms Haddaway wore a wire and got Jonathan Smith on tape that he committed the murder in order to get $60000 [1]. Here's part of the dialog for reader's convenience: "[BH:]Why were you in that field with blood all over ya? And they take, I seen ya goin’up the road th…

I suspect at least half the people exonerated by the Innocence Project are in fact guilty. However, I think that sloppy police work should never be rewarded with a guilty verdict, even if it's likely the defendant is guilty.

So are at least half the people acquitted by juries. That's the whole point of the reasonable doubt standard. We believe as a society that it is far more intolerable to imprison innocents than to let the guilty occasionally escape justice.
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