Loki Loc: Georgia

Today in 2011 Michael Morton of Texas was acquitted of murdering his wife, after DNA evidence exonerated him.
You might ask, "What's the problem? "
The problem is that he had already served 25 years of a life sentence before the DNA testing was allowed.
You might ask "Why did it take so long?"
Two reasons: First, it was not allowed as evidence until 1988, two years after Mr. Morton began wrongfully serving his sentence.
Second reason, the District Attorney in this case, Ken Anderson, deliberately and wrongfully witheld evidence from Mr. Morton's defense attorney. In 2002 , Anderson became a judge and repeatedly blocked attempts to re-open the case and admit DNA evidence.
Finally, on this day in 2011, Mr. Morton's nightmare was over. The real killer, a Mark Norwood, was arrested and sentenced to life.
Oh, yes, "Judge" Anderson? He was disbarred, paid a $500 fine, did 500 hours of community service, and served TEN WHOLE DAYS in jail. Poor baby.
What kind of Justice system allows an innocent man to serve 25 years, and the scumbag son-of-a-bitch who witheld evidence, and then blocked evidence that would have cleared the man (once it became legally admissible ) gets a slap on the wrist? I suppose it's like they say, "you're as innocent as you can afford to be." Trotsky, the contemporary of Vladimir Lenin said one sensible thing: "First, we kill all the lawyers."
I don't know about you, but ten days, 500 hours and 500 bucks doesn't seem like fair payment for 25 years of a man's life. Oh, yes, Judge Pondscum can't charge $500 hour to fleece clients anymore. Poor fellow got his law license revoked. That'll teach him a lesson, won't it?

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

How effective would the sentences be, if criminals were in charge of writing sentencing guidelines? No one would be surprised at the lightness of sentences were that to be the case, so why the surprise here?

All laws are written by lawyers, all guidelines pertaining to following those laws are written by lawyers. All investigations of lawyers thought to be violating those guidelines are conducted by lawyers and all sentences for those violations are handed down by lawyers. See a pattern yet?

Ever see an ad for a drug? That tiny fine print and verbal warnings are written by lawyers. Insurance policies and all the exclusions are written by lawyers. Hospital policy is written by lawyers. Phone, cable and satellite contracts are written by lawyers. Most employment applications are written by lawyers. In short, try to find ANYTHING, that is not written by or approved by lawyers. Now do you see the pattern?

Laws are not about justice, or ensuring life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness - unless you happen to be a lawyer - laws are about keeping lawyers employed and ensuring that they stay employed and protecting the "reputation" of the exclusive lawyer clique.

wuzblynd Loc: thomson georgia

Yep! That will teach him!! Sad how people can get away with things like that. He should spend the rest of his days inside, and in general population.

vernon

prosecutors who break the law should have to serve the same sentence that the innocent person had to serve.ruin an innocent life pay with your own.

vernon

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moldyoldy

http://www.innocenceproject.org/

330 Number of DNA Exonerations

14 Average Number of Years Served

140 Number of Real Perpetrators Found

PoppaGringo Loc: Muslim City, Mexifornia, B.R.

That scumbag should be made to serve the rest of Morton's life sentence or at the very minimum, 25 years.

missinglink Loc: Tralfamadore

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Loki Loc: Georgia

We can agree on something. Judging from some of the horror stories I am reading, it seems that in many cases, possible exonerating DNA evidence is being blocked because introducing it would reveal prosecutorial misconduct. That was certainly the case in my post.

Although not as serious, remember the Duke University LaCrosse team? DNA evidence suppressed by the DA, Michael Nydig, cleared the accused players of any wrongdoing. It seems that Nydig had an election coming up in a district with a large black population, and the supposed victim was black. Wanna get those voters stirred up? Rich white boys gang rape poor black girl. Heroic prosecutor obtains convictions. In this case, Heroic prosecutor got his ass disbarred.
A black man in NY whose name I cannot remember served several years of a sentence before it was discovered that the ADA had deliberately withheld pertinent and exculpatory evidence that would have exonerated the guy. THIS hairball was never prosecuted, and is now a full DA.

Loki Loc: Georgia

We can agree on something. Judging from some of the horror stories I am reading, it seems that in many cases, possible exonerating DNA evidence is being blocked because introducing it would reveal prosecutorial misconduct. That was certainly the case in my post.

Although not as serious, remember the Duke University LaCrosse team? DNA evidence suppressed by the DA, Michael Nydig, cleared the accused players of any wrongdoing. It seems that Nydig had an election coming up in a district with a large black population, and the supposed victim was black. Wanna get those voters stirred up? Rich white boys gang rape poor black girl. Heroic prosecutor obtains convictions. In this case, Heroic prosecutor got his ass disbarred.
A black man in NY whose name I cannot remember served several years of a sentence before it was discovered that the ADA had deliberately withheld pertinent and exculpatory evidence that would have exonerated the guy. THIS hairball was never prosecuted, and is now a full DA.

moldyoldy

That used to be business as usual, cops get an arrest, prosecutor gets a conviction, everybody gets a promotion. Beat the suspect until he confesses, or hide or plant evidence. There should be special sentencing for this crap.

vernon

your right but it is skewed lookat oj he literally got away with murder.

America Only Loc: From the right hand of God

Lawyers are good at manufacturing evidence at times...just look at what Obama came up with! Fake Birth Certificate!

moldyoldy

I have my doubts about OJ, only because he is too stupid to get away with murder.