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A Rural County Owes $28 Million for Wrongful Convictions. It Doesn’t Want to Pay[Nebraska]
The New York Times ^ | 01 April 2019 | Jack Healy

Posted on 04/01/2019 5:55:15 PM PDT by Theoria

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To: Theoria

People get all the justice they can afford...little money, little justice...That is our legal system.


21 posted on 04/01/2019 6:49:27 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: Husker24
The 6 who were convicted and will share the 28 million


22 posted on 04/01/2019 6:50:14 PM PDT by caww
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To: SunkenCiv

“So, we need to rely on your ESP as to who they voted for,“

The voters put the judge, sheriff, and prosecutor into office. They were exonerated by DNA evidence. They were threatened with the death penalty if convicted.

So they copped a plea and appealed. If anyone should be executed it’s the Prosecutor and the judge who permitted this travesty.

Like I said, the voters who put these crooks into office are ultimately responsible. And now they get to pay.

That’s our system. But you seem to want to murder the folks who were exonerated. You do realize that makes you sound like Schiff and Nadler, right?

L


23 posted on 04/01/2019 6:50:24 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending it is.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Since they haven't capped the six people receiving proper restitution...none.

It's an If/Then proposition.

I suppose that one could just kill the ringleaders, paint the town red, and transfer the biggest local source of income to the federal government.


24 posted on 04/01/2019 6:52:44 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Lurker
You do realize that makes you sound like Schiff and Nadler, right?
You do realize you're calling for the execution of the judge and prosecutor, and claiming that all the votes were unanimous, and cast by people some of whom weren't old enough to vote? No, you don't.

25 posted on 04/01/2019 6:57:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Theoria

A few questions: I wonder how many of the current 22,000 residents lived there and were 18 years old or older in 1985? And aren’t murder charges state charges? Are murder charges different from county to county?


26 posted on 04/01/2019 6:59:28 PM PDT by libertylover (Democrats hated Lincoln too.)
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To: MrEdd
Right, because like everything done by law enforcement, it's a mastermind and/or conspiracy.

27 posted on 04/01/2019 6:59:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

“You do realize you’re calling for the execution of the judge and prosecutor,”

Yes. I do. Those who make false claims that result in a false conviction should be subject to the same penalty as the crime the exonerated were accused of.

“and claiming that all the votes were unanimous,”

I never claimed any such thing.

“and cast by people some of whom weren’t old enough to vote?”

Sucks to be them. Maybe their parents should have paid more attention to the crooked ***holes on the ballot.

You’re the one who called for the exonerated people and their attorneys to be murdered. Not me.

L


28 posted on 04/01/2019 7:01:49 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending it is.)
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To: Lurker
Sucks to be them. Sucks to be you, too.

29 posted on 04/01/2019 7:03:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Abby4116
In 2008 DNA evidence implicated in the murders Bruce Allen Smith, an original prime suspect who had died in 1992, and all of the Beatrice Six were exonerated the following year.[4][5]

Yep.

30 posted on 04/01/2019 7:09:57 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: SunkenCiv

“Sucks to be you, too.”

Not really, I have a nice life.

Serious question. Do you think the Duke LaCross team should have just copped a plea and gone to prison for crimes they didn’t commit? Should their lawyers have been executed for daring to sue the DAs office?

Or was that different somehow? If so, please explain to me the difference.

Thanks in advance.

Enjoy your evening.

L


31 posted on 04/01/2019 7:13:32 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending it is.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Everytime the citizenry put little effort in to knowing who they employ and fail to insure that things are above board they earn whatever consequences their lackadaisical governance brings about.

I know that this is no longer popular, but this is a concept that the men who wrote the Constitution talked long and hard about.

It’s called responsibility.

You need to know who the people running for office are.
What their history is.
What they are about.

You are responsible for what they do.


32 posted on 04/01/2019 7:19:12 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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So the true perp was an original suspect, but they chose to import a "forensic specialist", threatened the death penalty, planted suppressed guilt in six innocent people, while it would have been so much easier on everyone to just find the evidence of the original suspect who turned out to be the perp.
33 posted on 04/01/2019 7:19:19 PM PDT by Abby4116
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To: SunkenCiv

Another serious question.

What do you think the remedy should be for those who have been wrongly convicted due to prosecutorial misconduct? A stern talking to for the folks who did it? Send them to bed without their supper?

Killing the victims of the misconduct and their attorneys seems....well.....wrong to me somehow. I’m genuinely baffled by your position on this one.

L


34 posted on 04/01/2019 7:20:21 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending it is.)
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To: Terry Mross

Interesting to here their ‘confessions’.....and theirs stories. One said she and others were the town drunks and liked to fight. Just think there’s more to this then we know.


35 posted on 04/01/2019 7:22:07 PM PDT by caww
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To: MrEdd; Abby4116; Husker24; Lurker
In Gage County, many remain unconvinced that Beatrice Six were innocent
June 17, 2018
https://www.omaha.com/news/courts/in-gage-county-many-remain-unconvinced-that-beatrice-six-were/article_fdc12922-00d4-5b86-9261-99f3529a9c98.html

Good read. Americans don't get what The Law can do to them if they're on the wrong side of the bars - even if they're innocent.

Not as bad as the NKVD during the Great Purge, but too many similarities for comfort.

36 posted on 04/01/2019 7:24:12 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: Theoria

Probably just need to declare bankruptcy. Let a bankruptcy judge sort it out.


37 posted on 04/01/2019 7:25:19 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: Theoria
Sounds as if the county may have ironically saved their worthless drugged up lives by prosecuting them. Some thanks they get!

“None of us were living aboveboard lives,” Ms. Gonzalez said. “We were all partyers. We were all basically chemically induced idiots."

38 posted on 04/01/2019 7:25:27 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Theoria
Bump
To read later
39 posted on 04/01/2019 7:25:35 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Lurker

You are in most rare form tonight, L.


40 posted on 04/01/2019 7:26:21 PM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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