Posted on 02/28/2014 10:39:54 AM PST by Altariel
DURHAM, N.C. — A 20-year-old sophomore communications major at North Carolina Central University, Lewis James Little sat in the Durham County jail for a month last year after he did what he says he thought was the right thing.
He and several friends had been visiting the home of a childhood friend on Melbourne Street in east Durham on the night of June 21, 2013, when, he says, they discovered 25-year-old Michael Lee dead in the middle of the road.
"I called the police – when none of the other guys were even thinking about it – trying to do the right thing, and it pretty much started from there," Lewis said.
Twenty minutes after officers arrived, he was handcuffed and later jailed under a $1.425 million bond on burglary, kidnapping and several other criminal charges in connection with a break-in at a nearby home.
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Little had been wrongly accused, and even though the case was dismissed, the damage was already done. Since then, he says, he has had issues finding both housing and employment.
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Thanks for the correction.
People are ugly John...
Phooey. That aint liberty.
Everything I read in this article is that this is a very patient and classy individual. He hasn't been screaming racism or racial profiling. He says he can understand the reason for his arrest. He's just trying to get along with his life. The lesson for everybody should be: if you call the police, make it an anonymous tip or you may live to regret it.
Clearly this is an injustice perpetrated by the government. If we're going to give the police and prosecutors immunity for their actions -- which up to some point is entirely necessary and proper -- we should also have an automatic process whereby a person falsely accused automatically has his record expunged, at the expense of the taxpayers.
I have a feeling that his month in jail derailed his college plans.
Modern Rules:
1. You screw up, you get punished.
2. The Government screws up, you get punished.
3. You cannot lie to the government
4. The Government can (and does) lie to you.
> 1. NEVER involve police.
> 2. NEVER involve lawyers.
> 3. If you ignore rule 1 and involve police, ALWAYS involve lawyers.
Exactly ...
Phooey. That aint liberty.
Amazing isn't it?
I had to take a break for quite awhile from FR awhile back. Some of the most wonderful, liberty-minded people are here. Some of the most narrow-minded and judgemental are here as well.
My son is a full time student who also works full time and lives in an apartment well off-campus. Under these circumstances would he be hired or rented an apartment?
It's called Google. That and the burgeoning mugshot blackmail industry.
Basically, you obtain public records of mugshots and arrest records from around the country, post them on your website, and then charge fees to anyone who wants their arrest records removed.
Then he is not familiar with the Streisand Effect.
Good grief. How is that even legal?
Streisand Effect doesn’t apply here, because he’s not attempting to censor or remove information, but to add information so that both the arrest and the exoneration are publicized.
Expunging his arrest record and then attempting to have articles about the arrest removed would be Streisanding. It would be a hopeless and rack up lots of legal fees, much like Babs did. Her lawyers laughed all the way to the bank.
Yeah, I followed up my sarcasm by saying he just looks like a normal young man to me. And he does. I don’t find dreadlocks to be threatening at all. I’ve known a few smoking hot hippie chicks with dreads and they never bothered me one bit. :-)
The hairdo in the article is a “dreadlock mullet”; just a variation on the mugshot. LOL.
yes... i did mean to send it to you... basically, i agreed with your post, and then i just added my two cents...
WRONG!
When I was a sophomore in college, housing was an off-campus apartment, and employment was writing software for a local R&D shop. I was not at all unique.
Amen!
I’ll admit I read your comment too fast
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