Watch humbling moment man wrongly convicted of MURDER is freed after 39 years in jail

[joebloggs]

He's 'lucky' they messed the papers up for the death penalty 39yrs in prison and he was innocent , another case against the death penalty.







http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...670562#rlabs=7

[Ako Si Jamie]

All his adult life spent behind bars based on the evidence of a lying 12 year old.

Hopefully he'll get adequately compensated.

[joebloggs]

He's 'lucky' he didn't end up as one of Dedworth's good news stories

[Ako Si Jamie]

[Michael Parnham]

All his adult life spent behind bars based on the evidence of a lying 12 year old.

Hopefully he'll get adequately compensated.

I'm sure he will, bless him!

[joebloggs]

I'm sure he will, bless him!

What are the chances of that? First met him 39 yrs ago

Prosecutor Timothy McGinty said his case had fallen apart and dismissed objections to Jackson's motion for a new trial. Prosecutors later dismissed the charges against the men.

Read more here ....

http://www.cleveland.com/court-justi...iends_lea.html

[tiger31]

All his adult life spent behind bars based on the evidence of a lying 12 year old.

Hopefully he'll get adequately compensated.

I believe the American system doesn,t allow for compensation - no matter how long you serve as an innocent person.

[les_taxi]

He's 'lucky' they messed the papers up for the death penalty 39yrs in prison and he was innocent , another case against the death penalty.







http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...670562#rlabs=7

I'm really pleased for the guy, but it's not another case to be against the death penalty in the modern world especially where you have the 2 slugs who killed Lee Rigby or Ian Huntly. They did not have DNA testing in those days either. I'm for it if proved beyond all doubt - as in the 2 cases I have mentioned - as it would be impossible to have a miscarriage of justice

[fred]

I'm really pleased for the guy but it's not another case to be against the death penalty in the modern world especially where you have the 2 slugs who killed Lee Rigby or Ian Huntly.They did not have DNA testing in those days either. I'm for it if proved beyond all doubt - as in the 2 cases I have mentioned - as it would be impossible to have a miscarriage of justice

Les.. I have nothing against life sentences for the type of "people" you describe as long as the guards can give them a good kicking at least once a week and the inmates can freely add ground glass to their coffee at will... You know..Like they did in the good old days.

[fred]

In regards these two fellas, I hope that they sue the justice system for Millions and millions of dollars to help compensate for such a sad loss of the best years of their lives..

I respect them both immensely for the attitude they displayed after release.. Incredible IMO.

[les_taxi]

Les.. I have nothing against life sentences for the type of "people" you describe as long as the guards can give them a good kicking at least once a week and the inmates can freely add ground glass too their coffee at will... You know..Like they did in the good old days.

I can accept that, but they would still be on my Death Row, and I would torture them repeatedly by letting them have their last meal, then electric chair and pardoning them at the last minute - to be repeated over and over. Then, when I felt really mean, I would strap one of 'em in, bring along the other one to watch and fry the ........ then tell the other one it's your turn next week - maybe! Evillestaxi.com

That is for the ones I have mentioned and not for a case not 100% proven I might add. Right - typing that has cheered me up, so I'm off for a 6 mile walk

[Jamesey]

He's 'lucky' he didn't end up as one of Dedworth's good news stories

Exactly.

Yet another reason why the death penalty is wrong.

[les_taxi]

Yet another reason why the death penalty is wrong

Not wrong for the likes of Ian Huntly, Yorkshire Ripper, Dr.Shipman, killers of Lee Rigby. Could go on and on ...

[joebloggs]

Not wrong for the likes of Ian Huntly, Yorkshire Ripper, Dr Shipman, killers of Lee Rigby. Could go on and on ...

They believed that this guy and the other 2 were guilty enough to give them the death penalty

[les_taxi]

They believed that this guy and the other 2 were guilty enough to give them the death penalty

Wish you would read what I put - instead of just arguing for the sake of it Joe!

I said in 100% proven cases - which Lee Rigby's killers, Ian Huntly and the Yorkshire Ripper are.

[joebloggs]

Wish you would read what I put - instead of just arguing for the sake of it Joe!

I said in 100% proven cases - which Lee Rigby's killers, Ian Huntly and the Yorkshire Ripper are.

So these 3 guys nearly got the death penalty in a less than 100% proven case. Maybe they should not have been charged at all then

What about Stefan Ivan Kiszko Les? Is he one of your 100% proven cases?

[les_taxi]

I'm not even going to bother looking it up. My reply was for modern 100% proven cases.

Lee Rigby's killers are one example - are you saying that was not 100% proven?

That is the type of incident I'm referring to. Nothing to do with reasonable doubt or anything like that.

So where there is no doubt, for the 100th time Joe, Execute them and I will do it if no one else wants to do it.

[SimonH]

I think it's fairly obvious what Les is saying and I agree with him.

There's no doubt what 100% means and the examples he's given are irrefutable. If there were any element of doubt - or the accused consistently proclaimed their innocence - then that obviously isn't 100%

[les_taxi]

Thank you Simon

[imagine]

But how can they sentence anyone who is not 100% guilty at all?

Do they judge that if the evidence is, let's say, 75% guilty, they are classed as guilty?

Why are they jailed at all if the evidence is not 100%?

[SimonH]

But how can they sentence anyone who is not 100% guilty at all?

Do they judge that if the evidence is, let's say, 75% guilty, they are classed as guilty?

Why are they jailed at all if the evidence is not 100%?

I think this explains it better than I could

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_doubt


Evidence that is beyond reasonable doubt is the standard of evidence required to validate a criminal conviction in most adversarial legal systems.[1]

Generally the prosecutor bears the burden of proof and is required to prove their version of events to this standard. This means that the proposition being presented by the prosecution must be proven to the extent that there could be no "reasonable doubt" in the mind of a "reasonable person" that the defendant is guilty. There can still be a doubt, but only to the extent that it would not affect a reasonable person's belief regarding whether or not the defendant is guilty. "The shadow of a doubt" is sometimes used interchangeably with reasonable doubt, but this extends beyond the latter, to the extent that it may be considered an impossible standard. The term "reasonable doubt" is therefore used.

If doubt does affect a "reasonable person's" belief that the defendant is guilty, the jury is not satisfied beyond "reasonable doubt". The precise meaning of words such as "reasonable" and "doubt" are usually defined within jurisprudence of the applicable country.

[imagine]

Thanks Simon, it's not as clear cut as guilty or not guilty.

Criminal Law is complicated.

[Arthur Little]

Here's my considered opinion:

If ... on the basis of irrefutable DNA evidence available at the scene of the crime ... ANY person charged, is found guilty of premeditated, cold~blooded murder - then that person should be for "the chop" No two ways about it!

[les_taxi]

Or caught red handed as in Lee Rigby

[Arthur Little]

Or caught red handed as in Lee Rigby

... but I would start with sexually~motivated child killers - like Brady, Hindley, Tobin and the aforementioned Huntly - thereafter, I'd move on to *terrorists and **drug barons ... BOTH lots of whom are responsible for wiping out innocent people ... the *former lot [usually and mercifully] instantaneously and the **latter far more frequently causing a horrendously slow, lingering death.

[bigmarco]

I think I follow the Amnesty international line

The death penalty legitimizes an irreversible act of violence by the state and will inevitably claim innocent victims. As long as human justice remains fallible, the risk of executing the innocent can never be eliminated

If we had the death penalty here all these people and more would have probably been executed despite later being found innocent.
Bridgwater3 Guildford 4 Birmingham 6 Maguire 7 Stefan Kizko Barry George Sean Hodgson

More than 130 death row inmates have been proved innocent in the US since 1973.

Like most I agree we have some vile scum in our prisons some of which I'd probably quite happily pull the trigger on if I caught them in the act but I could never support the death penalty as long as the risk remains of innocents being killed. Life in Prison should mean exactly that with no privilidges and hard labour wherever possible.

[les_taxi]

I would not execute anyone without 100% proof.

I would happily be a volunteer executioner

[Michael Parnham]

I would not execute anyone without 100% proof.

I would happily be a volunteer executioner

Same here Les!

[joebloggs]

I'm not even going to bother looking it up. My reply was for modern 100% proven cases.

Lee Rigby's killers are one example - are you saying that was not 100% proven?

That is the type of incident I'm referring to. Nothing to do with reasonable doubt or anything like that.

So where there is no doubt, for the 100th time Joe, execute them and I will do it if no one else wants to do it.

This thread is about innocent people being convicted not guilty ones..

When are you going to execute them Les, when it's 100% no doubt, when you've convicted him ? What about 16 yrs later when it's 100% no doubt he's innocent ? Are you going to release him then ? , you can't - you've killed an innocent person!

A 23-year-old local tax clerk of Ukrainian/Slovenian parentage, served 16 years in prison after he was wrongly convicted of her sexual assault and murder. His ordeal was described by one MP as "the worst miscarriage of justice of all time."[1] Kiszko was released in 1992 after forensic evidence showed that he could not have committed the murder. He died in December 1993. Ronald Castree (born 18 October 1953 in Littleborough, Lancashire) was eventually found guilty of the crime on 12 November 2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Lesley_Molseed

[les_taxi]

Joe has been on crystal meths again - ramblings of a madman

You are the only one who does not seem to understand what I said - everyone else does.

Argument for argument's sake Joe