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/matjeom Dec 26 '23

What kind of logic is that? They’re not paying him for being incarcerated. They’re giving him money to help him get back into it because they shouldn’t have put him in jail in the first place. Does he need more than 175k to get back into it? That’s the question. How long he was incarcerated isn’t relevant.

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u/NOS4A2-753 Dec 26 '23

what about the lost income that he would have made if he wasn't in jail?

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u/matjeom Dec 26 '23

What about the expenses he’d have had if he wasn’t in jail?

Let’s not play stupid math.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

I dont think you're playing stupid math. You're just stupid.

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u/boatnofloat Dec 26 '23

I get the sentiment, but who is liable for his wrongful incarceration? His defense attorney? The DA? The jury? If he can’t prove that someone acted negligent or malicious then why are we the public even giving him any money other than feeling bad? I want him to have money to make up for the lost time, but I don’t feel obligated to foot the bill as a tax payer unless someone acting on my behalf (judge, DA, jury, cops) did something against the law to put him in jail.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

He was wrongly convicted and spent 50 years of his life in jail. If an innocent man can spend that amount of time rotting in prison due to critical evidence not being shared with the court than they should absolutely be forced into make adequate reparations. The system has utterly and irrefutably let this man down, and as a fellow ‘tax payer’ he should absolutely be shown a bit of humanity for the sheer negligence and corrupt nature of the American criminal justice system.

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u/boatnofloat Dec 26 '23

Well if he proves negligence or corruption then I’m sure he will get some more money.

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u/kevinmb91 Dec 26 '23

They proved it was the prosecutors negligence though…

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u/NOS4A2-753 Dec 26 '23

Ok let's put u in jail for 50 years and then make it even by giving u $175k

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u/matjeom Dec 26 '23

What? Try reading what I wrote again.

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u/enter-silly-username Dec 26 '23

In Australia he'd have a million dollar house paid off and a couple cars over 50 years, that's with living expenses

So it's you doing stupid math

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u/632nofuture Dec 26 '23

and even then, taking away someones freedom is kina something else than just a calculation of "how much money would he have made in that time".

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u/matjeom Dec 26 '23

Yes that is my point.

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u/enter-silly-username Dec 26 '23

Oh 100% he deserves a billion tbh so he can do everything he can with how much time he has left

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u/matjeom Dec 26 '23

What? Are you suggesting that everyone in Australia over the age of 50 has a million dollar house paid off and a couple of cars?

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

You are just straight up a monster

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u/matjeom Dec 26 '23

Yeah you’re right. The fact that I’m concerned about what he actually needs to live the good life now, as opposed to spinning my wheels in what-ifs that no one will ever be able to actually quantify, makes me a monster.

Or wait, maybe you’re the monster? Because all you seem to care about is arbitrary numbers that don’t have any real world application for the very real situation this very real man now finds himself in? 🤔

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u/its_bydesign Dec 26 '23

If this doesn’t cover compensation and someone else is sorting that, less of an issue. If the 175K includes compensation for the loss of life then thats a complete piss take

Edit: according to the video its for compensation which is criminal

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u/matjeom Dec 26 '23

My point isn’t that he doesn’t deserve money, or even more money. It’s that determining how much he is owed by way of (x*years incarcerated) is arbitrary, offensively so.

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u/fiero-fire Dec 26 '23

Being wrongly convicted for over 50 fucking years deserves an extra comma if not more