Man who spent 17 years in prison for crime his doppelganger committed gets $1.1M
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1.1m won't return his years. But at least it'll help.
Don't wanna go and read it all, did they catch the Dopple at least?
1.1 million is piss for the amount of time he's spent inside, should've been 1.1 per year he was locked up
they don't really look that similar, they just have the same haircut and goatee
Hair and facial hair are usually the most stand-out things you look at when identifying someone. Yeah if you take a good long look at them you'd notice they're different but your memory isn't as sharp as you'd like to think.
The most heartbreaking thing about this is that this man has spent his entire time knowing for a fact that he was innocent and could do nothing about it. Seventeen years is a huge fucking chunk of time, and I couldn't imagine how hard it would be to come out and see everyone you knew just completely different
Why are these compensation payments always so disproportionate? Like actually insulting.
that's nowhere near enough
Because the woman fell and scraped her knees, the phone theft was classified as an aggravated robbery.
what the shit
Okay, so because she fell as he tried to grab her purse, and then grabbed her phone instead
The perpetrator went from being classified as a simple robber to a dangerous one, and had his sentence pretty much doubled
okay that's fair, totally fair
welcome to police profiling and and an overloaded justice system, that doesn't give the slightest fuck about rehabilitation.
you know why.
this is the US of "Pay to play" healthcare, politics, and more. 1/2 of the political spectrum deems everybody taking some form of government aid to be a welfair queen
A witness wrote down the license plate number of the car involved in the robbery. Investigators tracked down the driver of the car, who led them to the house where Rick lived.
Then the driver went to the precinct, where he looked through booking photos of people with the name Richard and Rick that matched the description the victim and a security guard had given.
The driver ID'd Jones as Rick. So did the victim, during a preliminary hearing and later at trial. But at the time of the robbery, Jones was at his girlfriend's birthday party, where several guests testified they saw him, and he had spent the next day watching movies with the girlfriend and cleaning up after the party.
His alibi didn't sway the jury, and Jones, who had a criminal record, was convicted on the aggravated robbery charge and sentenced to 19 years in prison.
The team from the Innocence Project eventually tracked down who they believe is the real "Rick:" He is Ricky Lee Amos, who looks strikingly similar to Jones and who had lived at the address linked to the crime.
they were literally at the perpetrator's house and still locked up a guy who had an alibi and several eyewitnesses backing him up
Well yes, because ultimately someone got hurt, even if minor, because someone else did something illegal to them in a direct, physical way. His actions led to her injuries. Someone being charged with assault for it is by no means problematic. The problem is getting the wrong person and punishing them for it.
Yeah this pisses me off. They locked up someone who literally could not be at the crime scene.
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