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Judge: Man cleared of murder deserves freedom - Yahoo! News
Acquitted of the charges BUT held anyway. On technicalities.
Acquitted of the charges BUT held anyway. On technicalities.
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Judge: Man cleared of murder deserves freedom - Yahoo! News
Acquitted of the charges BUT held anyway. On technicalities.
Judge: Man cleared of murder deserves freedom - Yahoo! News
Acquitted of the charges BUT held anyway. On technicalities.
Guy shoots a cop, who does not die, but who is seriously injured. Guy does 16 years for that. Then the cop finally dies. Guy is then charged with murder of the cop. He is acquitted on the murder charge. In spite of the acquittal, they hold the guy in prison for two more years on some technical, bull shit charge (having a cell phone in jail or some such).
Is that justice? No. What would justice have been? Release the guy when he was acquitted of the murder. I am assuming the prior 16 years he served for shooting the cop in the first place constituted his entire sentence for that and, had the cop not died, he would then have been released at the end of the 16 years. The article is not clear on that point.
Should the guy be compensated for having been held for two years when he should have been released? I think so - although (1) it is hard to drum up any sympathy for a cop shooter and (2) he was not being held totally arbitrarily - it appears there was some reason to hold him the extra time. But two years for having a cell phone in prison? I don't think so.
you wanna get fucked go to the courthouse....
you want justice go to a whore house....