he should be allowed a gimme crime...
since he was falsely convicted, now he gets like a freebie, gets to knck over a liquor store or steal and old lday's pension check...
Peaches, I would disagree
maybe if this guy was a football player a rich pop singer or owned a powerful hi-tech Internet company, his lawyers could have gotten him off
Also, consider the crime he is accused of...in the case of molestation/juvenile rape, we tend to get so blind with fury, we assume guilt and often "ignore" evidence...what if the jury had found him innocent, yet members of this girl's family decided he was guilty anyways? How do we know the initial judge didn't have inherent prejudice because of the nature of the rime? Maybe the jury was the same way?
What if it was your son that went to jail for 10 years for a crime he didn't commit? That lost his entire livelihood due to this "unfair" mistake. Also, considering the nature of this crime, this man could basically lose the rest of his life. How many people will read that artiocle and know he was truly innocent. Now, he'll still hear whispers when he's around, people will still assume guilt. What's he going to do? Carry around a news paper clipping with the story to explain to people why he was accused of this crime? You can bet this was a high profile case where he lives.
Remember the McMartin trial?
I'm sure because he wasn't a celebrity or powerful person that he didn't have the best lawyers at his disposal either.
Yeah, life is unfair, but this man's entire life was ruined because of this error.
I wonder how many other women might have been raped by the real rapist?
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