Prosecutorial misconduct like that should be punished severely -- there needs to be accountability for destroying other people's lives.
Rather better than that, can the government be sued for damages for wrongful imprisonment?
Jonathan Smith walks free after 21 years of wrongful imprisonment
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a friend who works for ICE. She has literally deported assassins for the Mexican cartels. She said the hardest part of her job is that cities like San Francisco give millions of dollars to activist lawyers to help keep these criminals in the US. The activist lawyers and even SF know that these are real criminals but they don’t care. That money could be going to help the cases of real illegal immigrants who are…
Perhaps ICE should focus their resources on these criminals instead of attempting to deport every person who ever crossed the border. Has she ever considered that this change might even be within their own power?
They don’t. That’s the problem. All you read about is the propaganda. My friend genuinely cares about making sure that there is justice but the media paints her like she’s some immigrant-hating Trump MAGA warrior. She has worked under Obama and Trump, and her job hasn’t changed.
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#33Was there any damages awarded? Surely the state is liable for a large sum as damages in this case?
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#34> Ms. Haddaway had demanded that the state dismiss unrelated drug charges against her grandson in exchange for her testimony against Mr. Smith and Mr. Faulkner. The recordings also show that the state refused to place that deal in writing to prevent Ms. Haddaway from being cross-examined on the issue. The state, in fact, dismissed the charges three days before Mr. Andrews’s trial was scheduled to begin. So they didn'…
The story behind a lot of these innocence project stories is one of corruption and/or incompetence. We don’t punish those things too hard in the US unless the target is poor or brown.
> We don’t punish those things too hard in the US unless the target is poor or brown.
Absolutely, which is why Bernie Madoff died a free man.
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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.
Do you know what indict means?
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps ICE should focus their resources on these criminals instead of attempting to deport every person who ever crossed the border. Has she ever considered that this change might even be within their own power?
They don’t. That’s the problem. All you read about is the propaganda. My friend genuinely cares about making sure that there is justice but the media paints her like she’s some immigrant-hating Trump MAGA warrior. She has worked under Obama and Trump, and her job hasn’t changed.
No, I read first hand experiences. Your friend can be whatever she wants, but if she is trying to argue that ICE doesn't pursue non-criminals, she is untrustworthy.
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#37Imagine trying to restart your life after that. You would still be unemployable because of what comes up from google searches. Out of touch with everything
Naw he’s famous enough. He just needs to make a GoFundMe to start a business and he’s golden
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
The story behind a lot of these innocence project stories is one of corruption and/or incompetence. We don’t punish those things too hard in the US unless the target is poor or brown.
> We don’t punish those things too hard in the US unless the target is poor or brown. Absolutely, which is why Bernie Madoff died a free man.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
The story behind a lot of these innocence project stories is one of corruption and/or incompetence. We don’t punish those things too hard in the US unless the target is poor or brown.
> We don’t punish those things too hard in the US unless the target is poor or brown. Absolutely, which is why Bernie Madoff died a free man.
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Re: Jonathan Smith walks free after 21 years of wrongful imprisonment
#40Prosecutorial 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
This sort of thing doesn’t deserve justice because she actively undermined it. She needs to be sent to the prison with the most prisoners she put away and thrown in with the general population. No need to worry about whether it’s a male or female prison.