Posted on 04/09/2021 7:15:49 AM PDT by deport
A man who served nearly 44 years in prison for a crime he says he didn't commit has received compensation from the state of North Carolina.
Ronnie Long told The Charlotte Observer it's not nearly enough.
Long received $750,000. It is by law the state's top compensation for victims of wrongful incarceration.
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A travesty. Rotting in jail for decades for something you did not do is terrible.
$750K may not be complete compensation, but he should do fine with this stake, at this point in life.
Did they prove he did not commit it? Or did they review he case and find not enough evidence?
Big difference
Long was convicted by an all-White jury in Concord of raping the widow of a Cannon Mills executive in 1976. Potentially exculpatory evidence was either intentionally withheld from his defense team or disappeared. And there was a tampered pool of potential jurors.
The state owes this man his life. $750k won’t cut it.
If there wasn’t enough evidence, that’s in the prosecution and detectives.
Not enough evidence equals not guilty. The problem is, prosecutors play to emotion of the jurors instead of the facts and evidence.
If corruption was involved, he should sue the prosecutors personally. Sue the DA’s office, sue their estates, sue anyone who was on the prosecution team down to the clerks. Sure the judge, if it’s suspected that he/ she was in on withholding evidence to the defense.
Make everyone involved miserable. They took 44 years of your life just to get a conviction score.
Lawyers turn over his $50,000 after their fees.
He’s right.. just because it’s a lump sum doesn’t mean it’s appropriate. That’s basically 17,500 a year. You literally stole most of this man’s life...
No amount will be enough, but stealing 40+ years of someone’s life is worth far more than that.
No amount will ever be enough, but that just compounds the tragedy IMHO.
Would he have had 750k in savings? I doubt it.
> Long received $750,000. It is by law the state’s top compensation for victims of wrongful incarceration. <
Then there is something wrong with that law, and it must be challenged. Suppose the state had set that amount at, say, $10,000. That law wouldn’t stand. And neither should this one.
44 years for rape? Yes its a horrible crime, but murderers get out before serving that much time.
If he didn’t do the crime, that amount should be tip money.
$750,000 is about a million short in my opinion.
Is it even possible to pay back a man for 44 stolen years?
The real rapist was in the govt or was closely connected to the govt. They railroaded this guy to cover up for someone else. Too bad those scum will never be caught.
He needs to contact one of Sharpton’s dream team racial justice attorneys. They should be ready for another payday about now.
The Judge wanted him out of circulation as long as possible in order to protect the real perp. I’d bet on it.
I don’t like wrongful convictions, and we’ve all seen enough misconduct by prosecutors and police to now that they can happen.
There might be a case for “innocence”. I’d love to see it before making up my mind. Certainly CBS, et al, have a record of concocting narratives that turn out to be more BS than C. “All white jury” is trumpeted as if that proves wrongful conviction of itself. What was the actual evidence presented at trial? Did the victim identify her assailant? Other witnesses? Fingerprints? Incriminating statements by the accused? Other witnesses? Did the accused have a real alibi that was suppressed?
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