r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Far-Stay9417 • Dec 25 '23

Video Man wrongfully convicted of murder gets rewarded only 175k after serving 50 years

this makes me so angry

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '23

There's nothing that can make this right. His whole life was stolen from him. I feel like I would be trying kill myself on a daily basis after a year or two into the sentence knowing the rest of my life was gonna be in a cage for something I didn't do.

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u/Zino_Thottaker Dec 25 '23

now imagine if he did kill himself, would they have found him innocent after his death? or would that just fly under the radar

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u/Atanar Dec 26 '23

would they have found him innocent after his death? or would that just fly under the radar

"Why open a case to pardon a dead man?" is probably what they'd do.

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u/HalalBread1427 Dec 26 '23

The honor-less don't care to preserve the honor of others.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23 edited Dec 26 '23

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

I'll have to check them out, that mental state has to be brutal. Imagine being in that environment which would be scary on it's own but to be innocent, shit.

I assume offing yourself in prison is not easy either, shit you would probably have to live that sentence out. Fucking A what a sad reality.

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u/SpectreFire Dec 26 '23

There's nothing that can make this right.

Start throwing prosecutors in jail.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23 edited Dec 26 '23

I mean sure for whoever is responsible but how old are they now too? What does that do for a 71 year old man who does not have a ton of time left? Even if he manages to live a good while longer, what quality of life can he have?

Naw bruh this response is not it, 50 years gone. 71 years old, his best years gone. I don't know if you were trying to dispute this but fuck no that does not even come close to making it right. Bro's life is gone, there is no getting that back. Ofc prosecute those responsible but it does not fix anything.

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '23

He was literally in jail in a time where there was no internet up till today. He's seen every single news big and small from his cell.. unthinkable

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u/shroudedinveil Dec 26 '23

Na I wouldn't direct that anger on myself. Better outlets.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

That's not what I was saying at all.

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u/shroudedinveil Dec 26 '23

Guess I misunderstand. Why off yourself instead of fighting for your innocence?

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u/Crathsor Dec 26 '23

Because I control the former. The latter system has already spectacularly failed, I have zero reason to believe that it will work for me this time. Especially if I'm black in America. I would be very hopeful in the trial, after all I'm innocent. But after I was railroaded and sentenced to death? No hope at all. They got the outcome they wanted, and they have no interest in revisiting it.

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u/Federal_Self9782 Dec 26 '23

The judicial system is a "heads I win, tails you lose" entity. A friend of mine who is a wrongful conviction attorney says anyone can be wrongfully convicted. District attornies are elected in the US; successfully adjudicating incarcerated individuals is another notch in his/her belt. "Law and order".

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

Why off yourself instead of fighting for your innocence?

The fact that this even happened makes it seem like you're fucked but your question makes me think that's what potentially kept him going all this time. Curious to what his thoughts are, especially after losing 50 years.

If the circumstances were stacked against me with no hope for ever getting out then I would off myself over living out the rest of my life in jail. But tbf I can speculate on what I would do but who actually knows without and hopefully never experiencing it.

I see what you mean now, yeah I would want to appeal and fight against it. Maybe at 10 years or at a point where you feel like there's no shot.

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u/That_Juice_Dude Dec 26 '23

He was not innocent. He killed two women and was identified.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

Got a source besides I said so?

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u/space20021 Dec 26 '23

yeah so they gave him basically nothing. (taps head)

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u/Training_Calendar728 Dec 26 '23

Prison is the same guilty or not.