200th exoneration in US due to DNA testing

Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2007-04-23 17:10

Story here. Excerpt:

'CHICAGO (AP) - A man who spent 25 years in prison for rape was exonerated Monday as a judge threw out his convictions because DNA evidence showed he couldn't have committed the attack.

Jerry Miller smiled and the courtroom erupted into cheers after Cook County Circuit Court Judge Diane G. Cannon read the ruling that cleared him of all charges.

Miller, 48, had been found guilty of rape, robbery, aggravated kidnapping and aggravated battery even though he testified he was at home watching television at the time of the 1981 attack. He was paroled in March 2006 and now works two jobs and lives with a family member in a Chicago suburb.

The exoneration is the nation's 200th based on DNA evidence, according to the Innocence Project, a New York group that works to free wrongly convicted inmates.'

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It should be a federal statute that if a man is wrongfully convicted of rape or any other sex crime and is later exonerated he should be entitled to compensation of triple the cost of keeping him in prison. IE: $25,000 per year to incarcerate a prisoner for one year times 3X equals $75,000 in compensation for each year illegally held.

This victim should get AT LEAST! $75K x 25 =$1,875,000 (tax free!).

No more of this settling for less than a half million BS as other victims have done lately! Probably the majority of the victims who are later exonerated come from a poor and uneducated background but that is no reason to take advantage of the naivety. They probably think $100K is an astronomical sum in compensation for spending decades of their lives in prison on sex convictions.

If the public thinks "poontang" is so damned valuable then make them pay for it.

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Submitted by Luek on Mon, 2007-04-23 19:59