No longer a convicted killer

CLEVELAND (AP) ^ | Dec 10th 2014 12:25PM | MARK GILLISPIE

[ravenwolf]

CLEVELAND (AP) - Having just exonerated Kwame Ajamu, Judge Pamela Barker stepped down from the bench on Tuesday, leaned across the defense table and gave him a hug. It had taken nearly 40 years, but Ajamu was no longer a convicted murderer.

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[ravenwolf]

Don`t say guilty until there is no room for any doubt.

[Shimmer1]

He can never get back what was done to him, but I’m happy for them, that they escaped a wrongful conviction.

[terycarl]

if they didn’t do it...who did??....and they sentenced three people to death row on nothing other than the testimony of a 12 year old...........??????

[ravenwolf]

He can never get back what was done to him, but I’m happy for them, that they escaped a wrongful conviction.

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Yep, that is literally taking 40 years out of the middle of some ones life.

[ravenwolf]

if they didn’t do it...who did??....and they sentenced three people to death row on nothing other than the testimony of a 12 year old...........??????

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I guess they don`t know who did it, but the three must have been handy or they thought they had done it, either way they coerced the witness.

[Gay State Conservative]

Did they have any evidence other than the 13 year old's testimony? If not then vacating the convictions may,or may not,be the right thing to do.If they did then,depending on the nature and strength of that evidence,vacating the convictions simply because of his story having changed could very well be wrong...contrary to the interests of justice.

The fact that one of the guys became a moslem doesn't speak well for him at all.

OTOH,I support an age cutoff for the DP.SCOTUS recently set it at 18...I might support 16 but there should be *some* kind of cutoff age.

[ravenwolf]

OTOH,I support an age cutoff for the DP.SCOTUS recently set it at 18...I might support 16 but there should be *some* kind of cutoff age.

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I have no idea what that is.

[Gay State Conservative]

I have no idea what that is.

I mentioned it because the article said that at least one of the ones convicted was 17 at the time...IIRC it was the subject of this piece.SCOTUS recently (within the last few years) ruled that nobody can be sentenced to death for crimes they committed when younger than 18.

[ravenwolf]

ruled that nobody can be sentenced to death for crimes they committed when younger than 18.

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Ok thanks.

...I might support 16 but there should be *some* kind of cutoff age.>>>>>>

kind of like deciding what the age of consent should be, no two kids the same.