Posted on 11/10/2013 6:35:46 PM PST by nickcarraway
A Los Angeles man who spent the last 34 years in jail for murder has finally walked free after the sisters of the case's sole witness said their sibling lied in court.
Kash Delano Register, 53, emerged from Twin Towers downtown jail on Friday afternoon, smiling and clasping his mother's hand. He said he couldn't be bitter, even after spending decades behind bars for a crime he didn't commit.
"I'm just in a numb feeling right now," Register told reporters outside the jail. "You know, it just hasn't really set in yet. I know it's real, but it just hasn't truly set in yet. It's a beautiful feeling, though."
Register has always maintained he did not kill Jack Sasson, 78, in the carport of Sasson's West Los Angeles home in April 1979. He was convicted primarily on the witness account of a neighbor and was sentenced to 27 years to life in prison.
Register was finally exculpated on Thursday after Superior Court Judge Katherine Mader ruled that prosecutors tried to hide evidence that could have proven Register's innocence and used false witness testimony.
The witness, Brenda Anderson, had changed her account numerous times since identifing Register, then 18, as the gunman, even though his girlfriend, who was pregnant at the time, testified that she was with him when the shooting took place.
Last month when Anderson was asked in court to confirm if Register was the shooter, she replied: "It may or may not have been that person."
No definitive physical evidence had been discovered to link Register with the shooting. The fingerprints found on Sasson's car did not match Register and police never found the murder weapon.
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The prosecutors should be hanged.
Actually, this conservative believes that both the witness and the prosecutor should be locked up for the next 34 years. Happy?
Not a joke. Miss Ima, as she was known, was referred to as "The First Lady of Texas". She was a philanthropist, art collector, highly respected and loved. She even has her own Wikipedia page.
I know a guy named Peter Eaton.
I am a conservative and I was thinking the same. They are focused on his name? Really? After 34 years in prison! Unbelievable!
I understand his girlfriend’s name is Robin D. Till.
This is why the death penalty is bad. It should give a man a natural lifetime to be exonerated or repent to God, not prevented from doing so.
And all folks can do is talk about his name.
never
one of many reasons I never vote for a prosecutor
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Funny that while people will pound on the bible when calling for death penalties, they are remarkably silent about the Mosaic provision that whoever falsely charges should be liable to the same penalty as what he sought — even unsuccessfully — to do to the one charged. Of course you can say we’re Christian and don’t do that — but then all of Christianity should apply, not just some of it.
I’m very much in support of punishing false accusers with the same sentence they were seeking for the falsely accused.
In this modern age, a monetary recompense might be the most efficient way. It ought to be statutory as well, not merely depending on a legislature-passed sympathy bill.
That does a lot to straighten motives out from vengeance to truth.
And even yet — there was a reason God did not slay Cain for having slain Abel. And if Lamech, spoken disapprovingly of in the Old Testament, signed up as a Freeper, half of FR would applaud his attitude. Stricter measures were only set in place after the Flood, which demonstrated among other things that easier policies were not up to reining in sin.
Huh?
Yeah, Mike was pretty popular back in the day. :)
“Most prosecutors are the lowest scum on earth”
A family friend was the Prosecutor in our county for probably 25 years. Had a reputation as ruthless and “won” a huge percentage of the cases he personally tried.
He retired and set up practice as a defense attorney. My attorney. He is, if not openly, privately contemptuous of Law enforcement. I have wondered how he reconciles the fact that he convicted many people based largely on the accounts of Law enforcement, who he now considers incompetent and corrupt.
Thank you. That needed to be said.
“And overzealous prosecutors, who hide evidence...”
Perhaps it is time for these prosecutors to be held responsible in cases like this one...monetarily and also with prison time themselves.
NO HAVING FUN! :(
There are reasons to agree with that and to disagree as well. What has always intrigued me is the public defenders who have to put up substantial defense for people who are clearly guilty. In a measurable number of those cases, the juries are confused or split and bad guys walk.
It is a flawed system, but still the best.
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