Posted on 05/17/2021 2:42:19 PM PDT by deport
Two North Carolina men who were wrongfully convicted in a rape and murder of an 11-year-old were awarded $75 million total in compensatory damages Friday, according to the Associated Press.
Henry McCollum and Leon Brown, who each spent 31 years in jail for a crime they did not commit, were each awarded $1 million for every year spent in prison. In addition to the $31 million each, the eight-person jury awarded them $13 million in punitive damages,
More than three decades after they were convicted of the rape and death of Sabrina Buie in 1983, new DNA evidence showed another man was responsible.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Well seems right since North Carolina screwed them over.
Hopefully they won’t be scammed out of their money.
And it increases the chances that the wrongly convicted (in an earlier time perhaps) have their convictions reversed.
McCollum and Brown are half-brothers, who had low IQs when questioned by police.
Speaking of low IQs, I expect to see the 'EXECUTE THEM IMMEDIATELY' crowd here soon.
Or, maybe not.
Stay on subject. I know it’s hard. Not everything is about trump.
I have close experience with LEOs tying to pin something on a low IQ person. Years ago the police questioned my learning disabled little brother for 6 hours (telling him he didn’t need an attorney) until he admitted to a burglary he did not commit.
“The DNA found on a cigarette was just one piece of scene evidence that has tied another North Carolina inmate to the crime.
Roscoe Artis, 76, lived just around the corner from the Buies in 1983, and confessed to raping and killing another Red Springs young woman, Joanne Brockman. That crime happened just weeks after Buie’s murder.”
https://abc11.com/child-rape-murder-red-springs-1983-killed/293662/
“Stay on subject. I know it’s hard. Not everything is about trump.”
True, but at least where I work, once you’re known to lie, EVERYTHING you say is viewed with suspicion.
In most cases yes. But this is a tragedy. North Carolina screwed these guys big time.
Did they get the $75 mil from the useless LEOs and prosecutors who all railroaded them?
No, wait. They got it from us tax payers.
Seriously, how many children do you think they have had?
They were 15 and 19 when put in jail
WHAT??? Am I reading this right? They were awarded $75 million but each of them is only going to go home with $750,000 of it? That's no where close to being as bad as the original crime, but it's pretty bad! Who gets the rest of it? The lawyers?... Can't be.
I just watched Making of a Murderer on Netflix. Its a true story.. The cops, DA, & judge totally railroaded the defendant, especially using his 73 IQ idiot nephew against him when it was obvious the kid didn’t know a damned thing.
Henry McCollum and Leon Brown, who each spent 31 years in jail for a crime they did not commit, were each awarded $1 million for every year spent in prison. In addition to the $31 million each, the eight-person jury awarded them $13 million in punitive damages, the News & Observer reports.
“I’d want to hear the other side of the story before believing the media on this (or on anything).”
Yes.
Yep, prosecutors only go after the easy to convict while ignoring Hillary and the Bidens.
So is the DA going to pay this compensation? The jury? The judge? The public didnt put them in jail. Why should the public pay for their wrong incarceration. And 75 million dollars? Im thinking pay them 100k a year until for life. Thats 8k a month plus change. And start with a 300k for a home and a few things. Ps and get them an honest financial advisor.
...and I will point out two things. They were cleared by a cigarette butt that just popped up, and the attacks in that community did cease after they were jailed (at least as far as I know), which is unusual for that type of killing.
But I’m not sure that I want to spend a week re-litigating it - rather I’d just like to know both sides. After all, that is what the media USED TO feel obligated to report.
Yep, at least the cops made it home, to hell with the civilians.
/sarc
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