To be sure the public defender didn’t do his job, but the prosecutors should never have brought the charges. The whole justice system failed.
Did you hear the guy talk about this and how hopeful he sounds for his future? It just makes me sick. He doesn’t even understand what he has lost yet. This young man is going to need some serious counseling and guidance when it hits him that life has gone on without him for the past most important five and a half years of his life.
I agree with your comments about what he has lost. He probably didn’t graduate high school either. Perhaps he completed that in prison.
I will concede that the prosecutors and even the judge should have headed this off at the pass. There must be something else we’re not hearing.
What bothers me, is now we are going to have to foot the bill for this kid. When malfeasance reaches this level, I want the players to have to anti up instead of the state.