18 years in jail - guilty until proven innocent

**Doc911** · 08-02-2005, 12:26 PM

It may take a while but he'll get paid somehow. Hell someone will pay him to write the book if not the movie.

**Evil1** · 08-02-2005, 12:45 PM

Originally posted by IYP_Mich

He will get out with a few millions in his pockets i hope , but nothing can make up for 18 years in jail.

I think you can recoup about $18k per year. fucking joke money

**Rich** · 08-02-2005, 01:00 PM

That's fucked up, stupid shit like that happens all the time. Up here in Canada in 1970, the police couldn't find a child murderer so they railroaded some poor hippy named David Milgaard. He spent 23 years in prison until his mother fought to have him freed based on new DNA evidence. He got $10 million (Canadian), but that's hardly worth the hell he went through. Everyone thought he killed a kid, he got it really bad in jail.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/milgaard/

**Rich** · 08-02-2005, 01:03 PM

Originally posted by Rich

That's fucked up, stupid shit like that happens all the time. Up here in Canada in 1970, the police couldn't find a child murderer so they railroaded some poor hippy named David Milgaard. He spent 23 years in prison until his mother fought to have him freed based on new DNA evidence. He got $10 million (Canadian), but that's hardly worth the hell he went through. Everyone thought he killed a kid, he got it really bad in jail.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/milgaard/

Ok I was mistaken, she wasn't a kid, she was 20, and she was raped and then murdered.

He was only 17 when they threw him in jail. What a waste of a life.

**PixeLs** · 08-03-2005, 12:25 AM

Fuck, those 18 years were all wasted behind those prison cells.

**BellaSeaira** · 08-03-2005, 12:31 AM

I feel bad for him and his family. I Bet the girl that put him in jail feels like shit.

**je_rome** · 08-03-2005, 12:39 AM

it's really frustrating how justice can take so long.. but maybe it's never too late (i hope) to return to where he last lived.

**blazin** · 08-03-2005, 12:44 AM

Originally posted by hottoddy

Dude, look at that guy. How many other crimes did he get away with?

idiot...

**aico** · 08-03-2005, 12:44 AM

Didn't the same thing happen to Tom Selleck?

**baddog** · 08-03-2005, 12:49 AM

Originally posted by Kevsh

I hope he wins a huge lawsuit after all of this.

For what? He was convicted by a jury of his peers. They can't prove malice.

**basschick** · 08-03-2005, 01:30 AM

maybe it's time dna testing becomes a requirement because human error will kick in every chance it gets.

i briefly knew a woman who shot her lover to death. it's true the woman begged to be shot, but still - dead. the woman who shot her did a whopping 18 months. this guy didn't do anything, and did 18 years. and all this time, they could have done a test to find out if he was actually guilty...

**georgeyw** · 08-03-2005, 01:32 AM

Originally posted by nojob

I do not know what I would do if I was int that situation. I would want revenge, but wouldn't want to get locked up again. hmmmm

sue the almighty fuk out of the government for a start

**moneymotivates** · 08-03-2005, 01:33 AM

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**etech** · 08-03-2005, 01:40 AM

I would sue the gov so bad, 18 years lost

**Matt 26z** · 08-03-2005, 01:47 AM

Sadly, he won't get a lot of money out of this.

The court doesn't really reward people for the court's own mistakes.

I think the wrongly convicted should get $250,000 per year plus extra restitution for every crime committed against them while in prison.

18 years in jail - guilty until proven innocent

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