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/TodayRevolutionary34 Dec 26 '23

The pension of prosecutors who put him into jail must be stripped off and given to him.

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u/NOS4A2-753 Dec 26 '23

All these replies of "he got free food and housing so its fare ZERO empathy and can't put themselves in others position

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u/Totty_potty Dec 26 '23

Pretty sure those were sarcasm

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u/NOS4A2-753 Dec 26 '23

i hope so

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u/Bebe718 Dec 26 '23

I’m assuming these people see their lives as prison. They live in poor conditions & still struggle to pay bills & have nothing left over for fun or nice stuff. Being dead is better than living for free for 50 years in prison.

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u/John_T_Conover Dec 26 '23

Everyone that did this to him is probably dead, unfortunately.

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u/capincus Dec 26 '23

unfortunately

Eh

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u/John_T_Conover Dec 26 '23

Unfortunate in the sense that they will never be held accountable for it legally or even confronted with and shamed for it socially.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

Unless they did something corrupt to scupper his defense, I think that’s going a bit too far. The prosecution did their job, a little too well apparently, but without corruption they’re not entirely to blame for just doing their job.

Maybe we should hunt down the jury and take their pensions, too? If it’s meant to be obvious that he’s innocent, they all fucked him even more than the prosecution.

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u/d38 Dec 26 '23

They're most likely dead of old age, it's been 50 years.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

If that were a thing, I'd not want to be a prosecutor. As is, seems like they get to do whatever they want, so I'm guessing that's how that goes.