Yes.
On another note-
I really hope people like Chad Heins (wrongfully imprisoned) get some sort of huge compensation and public statement with his image clearing his name.
Justice isn’t perfect and I’m not bad mouthing the system in this case. Mistakes happen and sometimes the wrong people get locked up (no system is perfect, but we still need a system to pursue justice). He isn’t the first
But when this happens, there needs to be a mechanism to help these people in a HUGE way. It would be interesting to know how these people are helped when released?
Except for people like Sheriffs Grady Judd and Chris Nocco, and maybe Gov DeSantis, Florida is the nation’s playground for psychopaths, pederasts, misfits, predators, grifters, and businesses which, despite the products they claim to sell, are thinly-disguised dispensaries of price gouging and flat out elder abuse. Belongs in the Bible.
How did this guy ever get convicted when the hair on the victim’s body did not match, the skin under the victim’s fingernails did not match, the semen on the bedsheets did not match.....and how did Prosecutors hide the fact that there was a bloody fingerprint on the bathroom fawcet that also did not match? Its prosecutorial misconduct not to have provided the latter to the defense. Somebody needs to be prosecuted for that.
Anyway, NONE of the DNA evidence matched this poor guy and there were no witnesses. How in the hell did he get convicted? All they had was that he was in the apartment passed out drunk.
Yes, he should get a huge compensation award. 13 years behind bars on a false conviction - especially when the state withheld exculpatory evidence - nearly ruined his life...it cost him all of his youth. Hopefully at 30 he can still build a decent life for himself.
The only thing they had was “Jail snitches” and never used the bloody print. They just wanted to say they caught the guy so they looked good. They now have laws about using Jail snitches since that case. But to answer your question, They never helped, and still have not helped him to this day, they considered him a suspect even after his release. Had it not been for him never giving up on his innocence and writing to the innocence project they would have never caught the real killer. Even funnier part is they NEVER looked into this guy back in the day and him of all people being she was stabbed and throat cut points obviously to a knife, and someone trained for survival would know how to use one, do military personnel not have knives?
Florida for years watched him like a hawk and did everything they could to make him look like a bad guy because they didn’t want to look like they had been wrong or want to find the true killer.
He said the day he got out that he hopes the same DNA that freed him would catch the real killer, and it did.