$14 Million Judgement

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Journalist Katy Reckdahl wrote for The Times-Picayune 21 December 2008:

John Thompson talks about his sons, the time he wrongly spent on death row and his half-year of freedom. ...This Saturday marks the six-month anniversary of Thompson's freedom. But in the spring of 1999, all of his appeals had been exhausted and his eighth — and final — execution date was only a month away. Then an investigator, hired as a last-ditch effort by his pro bono legal team, discovered a piece of microfiche containing a crucial 1985 lab report. In November 2002, the Louisiana Fourth Circuit ruled that Thompson deserved a new murder trial, citing the prosecution's "intentional hiding" of evidence.

On May 8 of this year, Thompson was acquitted of the murder charge that he'd been convicted of exactly 18 years before. He became the 108th person to be exonerated from this nation's death rows since 1973.

...The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to toss out a $14 million judgment against the Orleans Parish district attorney's office that a federal jury awarded last year to former death row inmate John Thompson.

The district attorney "has asked for state authority to file for bankruptcy over the jury award to the former inmate", saying they "cannot afford to pay".

 

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INCIDENT 2

It looks like the police are killing blacks, trying to provoke an incident so that the special ops troops set up for riot control can get some training after the people get fed up and create demonstrations.

I wonder how many more blacks the police will have to kill before all this happens.