Man being released for crime he didn't commit after 42 years in prison

42 years
They basically took his whole life
There are no words, no amount of money, nothing they can do to give it back to him

Rocket River

 

Horrible. I'm not sure I believe in heaven or hell or even karma. But I sure hope those people get what's coming to them.

 

black?...

was unfortunately the first thought that came to mind as soon as I read the op

 

Absolute bull ****

 

Wow. Yes, he's free, but he'll never have a life. He's been incarcerated for 42 years and he gets out only because he took a deal saying he did it. So, he's still a convicted arsonist and murderer. Can't get a job. Can't get money from the state for being wrongfully convicted. I hope he has family to help him because essentially screwed. I'll never understand the mindset of the current prosecutor that says he did it. She had nothing to do with the case. It has nothing to do with her win/loss record or her abilities as a prosecutor. Why treat this man this way?

 

I wouldn't sign ****. It's their way of not getting sued for 42 years of wrongful incarceration. **** them, sue them till they bleed.

 

Can't he sue them after the fact? He is pretty much being coerced into signing the deal.

 

I think we would be surprised and appalled at how many Plea Deals
are worked out this way

The law hates to admit a mistake . . . ever

Rocket River

 

So sad they have taken this man's life from him.

 

longest April Fool's joke EVAR.

 

I saw the 60 Minutes piece on this last night. The DA (I think?) had the biggest sh** eating grin the whole time while refusing to reconsider the case. She totally acknowledges the broken logic but won't budge.

Instead of trying to protect prior convictions (my guess as to why they aren't budging) it does the exact opposite IMHO. Totally f'ed up.

Sad, but I get why the guy gave in. You can only waste your life away for so long.

 

The DA should be locked up for 42 years. Damn....

 

HHahahhahahahahahahaha

 

That's really awful. So some guy walked into the building, thought to himself -- "must be a young black boy that did this because those blacks use fire to clear farmland, so they're probably comfortable with fire. So let's arrest the first young black boy we see and throw him in jail for the rest of his life."

 

Well he had a box of matches and he was a black so obviously guilty.

What is really terrible is this prosecutor trying to screw him over.Hopefully there is a special place in hell for her.

 

I wouldn't be sad if something really bad happened to both the racist fire investigator, Cy Holmes, and the Pima county attorney, Barbara LaWall.

If there's a Hell, I hope they both burn in it for a very long time. I can't imagine what it would feel like to have four decades of my life taken away from me.

 

Damn. Too bad he has to accept a no contest plead in order to be free but can't turn around and sue the crap out of the system that messed up his life.

 

Railroaded going in. Railroaded going out. Poor guy.

 

He has more of a case of going "Dorner" on someone then Dorner did. If someone took 42yrs of my live for a crime I didn't commit.. I guarantee that if I ever got out, I'd pay that person a visit if it was first thing or last thing I ever did.