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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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> evidence that the prosecution improperly withheld from the defense regarding the reliability of informant testimony What are the consequences of this for the prosecution?

A good question, but we already know the answer. At least more killer cops are getting charged and jailed, and that judge who threw the kids into the for-profit prison for kickbacks.

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.

There needs to be, but there generally isn't, and it's by design. Law enforcement in the US is generally above the law, most of the time.

Most efforts to fix this are denounced as being pro-criminal or anti-cop or some tired variation on the same.

If you know of any good ways to change this system that don't involve violence, I would love to hear them and participate.

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

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It’s funny how these inconvenient facts are never brought up. Thank you for this, it’s pretty eye opening.

How do we know the so called taped evidence wasn’t manufactured? I’m not usually given to conspiracy theories, but we already have plenty of evidence that the prosecution lied repeatedly in this case.

>How do we know the so called taped evidence wasn’t manufactured?

would a false tape made 21 years ago show signs of falsification detectable with modern technology? I don't know but I would expect yes.

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

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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.

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…

The ICE of the past few years is one of the cruelest and most out-of-control institutions in the USA which has regularly operated like a fascist secret police agency. Maybe your friend should try to exert some internal pressure to cut back on the institutional depravity, lawbreaking, coverups, and stream of lies, so that ICE can fix its ruined reputation and start building a bit of trust and support from the society.

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 think you should actually read the unanimous opinion by the Maryland Court of Appeals before sleazifying the work of the innocence project so vilely:

https://law.justia.com/cases/maryland/court-of-appeals/2020/...

    In its analysis of the palmprint evidence, the circuit
    court lost sight of the forest for the trees. The 
    points of overriding importance are: 

        (1) Ty Brooks burglarized Ms. Wilford’s house in 
            break-in that was never reported by Ms. Wilford;

        (2) Thomas’s confession that he committed the
            burglary and murder is corroborated 
            by his statement putting Ty Brooks in the 
            house and identifying the murder weapon as
            a butcher knife long before those facts were 
            publicly known; and (3) ...
To break it down for you, they already had a confession in evidence!

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

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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…

The people know the difference between Filipina nurses and MS-13 gangbangers, and if there is no constitutional policy that distinguishes them, they’ll crack down on all immigration. If there’s no politically correct way to advocate for this, they will use anonymous forums: Reddit and the voting booth.

If you want to work anywhere as a nurse, the first things they will ask you are:

- To fill USCIS Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification.

- To provide a valid nursing license.

USCIS Form I-9 is also required by most jobs. So the remaining jobs that are targeted by undocumented people are informal jobs in agriculture, construction, landscaping, food processing, etc.

From the international news I've seen from El Salvador, it is my impression that Mara Salvatrucha/MS-13 gang members are easy to identify since they use MS-13 tatoos.

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…

It’s funny how these inconvenient facts are never brought up. Thank you for this, it’s pretty eye opening.

It's not eye opening at all. The evidence that exonerated Smith was a confession from another individual accompanied by physical evidence of that individual at the scene of the crime. Much more compelling than Smith's "uh huh." The comment you're replying to is being deceitful.

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

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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

I think defendants should be compensated for fees and other damages for any level of failed prosecution, especially if they end up wrongfully incarcerated. If abusing the justice system has to come out of the budget, I think most of the incentives to do so will start to disappear.

What does 21 years of missed opportunity cost?

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

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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.

Technically, crossing the border is a crime. You should clarify you mean violent criminals.

And some of the people being brutally punished by ICE and CBP do not even know what a country border is, because they don't know what a country is, because they're not even 1 year old.

Feel free to jump to pages 7, 8 and 9 of this report. https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO00/20190712/109772/HHRG...

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

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Earlier 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…

Why do cities like San Francisco want to keep assassins in the US?

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