Wrongly Imprisoned Man Freed in Texas

Submitted by blaze4metal on Wed, 2007-10-10 19:07

Story here. Excerpt:

'A man who spent a dozen years in prison for a rape he didn't commit was freed Tuesday, the third inmate to be released because of problems with the Houston Police Department's crime lab.
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Houston officials have been struggling to fix the crime lab for years. An independent audit in 2002 raised concerns about DNA analysis procedures. In June, a former U.S. Justice Department inspector hired by the city cited hundreds of "serious and pervasive" flaws in forensic cases handled by the lab.'

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Since when is shrimp a delicacy? Congratulations to him.

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Submitted by Sosickoftheirlies on Wed, 2007-10-10 21:46

So where is the monetary compensation? I hope he is not one of these innocent men released from years in prison on bogus rape charges who has all of his worldly possessions in a small paper bag and who says he is not mad or angry with anyone and just wants to get on with life! He should be mad and very mad at the system that destroyed his life! He deserves at least 12 million, 1 million for each year he was unlawfully imprisoned. Hey, if some dumb female burger flipper at McDonald's can be tricked into submitting to a strip search from a crank caller over the phone and get 6 million from a law suit over it then this man should get much more.

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Submitted by Luek on Wed, 2007-10-10 22:56

If he was mad and sedimentary, you better believe that you wouldn't hear a word about this from the press. I hope he gets compensation, but very few states have laws that would help him at all.

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Submitted by tac0965 on Thu, 2007-10-11 13:26


But his first stop was City Hall, where Taylor, 47, urged the City Council to prevent other innocent prisoners from rotting behind bars.

While I agree on a philosophical level that no innocent person should be in jail, he should, like you said, have been mad about the particular reason he was in jail. I know if I had spent 12 years in prison because some woman "guessed" that it was me who raped her, I would be just a little irate.

PS. I like the math captcha better.

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Submitted by blaze4metal on Fri, 2007-10-12 20:43