September 22, 2014

"It feels great to be back on Earth."

"I’m looking forward to restoring my life as best as I can."

9 comments:

MisterBuddwing said...

"The case against him was very weak. One witness gave a description that did not match Lopez’s profile. The other had just finished a crack binge when the murder took place, and later recanted."

Who the hell served on that jury? And what the hell was the defense attorney doing?

Quaestor said...

And what the hell was the defense attorney doing?

The least he could to earn his public defender's fee.

rhhardin said...

Dying does not end his freedom. It makes it permanent.

rhhardin said...

Wrongful imprisonments send a strong message : if we even think you did it, we'll get you.

That's Imus's view.

BarrySanders20 said...

“He wanted to do some domestic travel to other states, and to travel internationally,” Deskovic said. “He wanted to go to college and to go to law school. He wanted to set his wife up in business, and he wanted to be an entrepreneur.”

Best that he died now.

Ann Althouse said...

I don't think when people are released from prison it's because we now know the person is innocent, though that's what the newspaper tends to say. It's shorthand. I think many of the people who are released instead of being retried actually are guilty. The state just can't successfully try them at this point or thinks the sentence served is good enough and it's not worth retrying.

MadisonMan said...

I hope his daughter can somehow continue his lawsuit.

The Crack Emcee said...

A man dies a year after being wrongly imprisoned for over 20 - as 1 in 9 are found to be - and the tag is "prison"?

Try something like "America is a racist Hellhole" next time for accuracy,...

rcommal said...

. ... I think many of the people who are released instead of being retried actually are guilty. ...

Many, your choice of word which includes, in effect, the notion of "not all." What about, what to say regarding, those who fall into the "not all" part?