He said that his knowing God allows him to harbor no anger.
Posted on 12/17/2009 1:15:12 PM PST by Rudolphus
BARTOW, Fla. – James Bain used a cell phone for the first time Thursday, calling his elderly mother to tell her he had been freed after 35 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Who can? At least he got out alive. There are probably plenty of innocent people that passed away behind bars.
While that dirtbag director lives in his Swiss Chalet, never serving time for what he DID do...like my old man used to say, life is definitely not fair...
Wow! God bless this man. All this time and not holding on to that anger. What a lesson for us all.
He said that his knowing God allows him to harbor no anger.
Wow, when he went to prison, Richard Nixon was president and I was 19!..........
AMEN! Isn’t that the truth!
And people wonder why anybody might have a problem with death penalties in America.....
DNA testing has been around since the mid 80’s right?
If he doesn’t know this information - Don’t tell him - I think the that might test his anger management skills.
Because there are places that over-compensate in the other direction. Consider, in Lousiana if there are no witnesses willing to come forward to a murder - the perp goes free. Given the number of crimes that occur, grievous mistake are going to be made.
These mistakes are horrible things, and I do hope this man never has to work a day in his life - but I am not willing to let every murderer behind bars get away with what they did.
Consider:
Louisiana
New Orleans is often accused of institutionalized "misdemeanor murder". Article 701 of the criminal code requires the state to release a defendant who has not been charged with a crime after 60 days.[2][3] Before Hurricane Katrina a few hundred people per year were released under article 701.[3] In 2006, after Katrina, there were over 3,000 article 701 releases although the population had dropped from around 500,000 to around 250,000.[3] Causes include inexperienced prosecutors, inexperienced police officers, poor processing procedures, poor tracking procedures, incomplete reports, missing evidence and an undermanned police force.[2][3] New Orleans also has a problem with witnesses that go missing before trial and a crime lab that was destroyed during Katrina and has yet to be repaired.[4] All of this results in an effective sentence of 60 days for those suspected of murder.
God bless him...he’s got a much better attitude than I would have!
So was he. (19 years old). Imagine everything you have done with your life and all memories you have had from then to now and toss them aside for the day to day drudgery of prison... and you were innocent.
Just amazing. There is nothing that can be done to give back a person 35 years of their life. And those that put him away (judge, jury and prosecutor) on no physical evidence should be ashamed.
Our system is the best in the world, but it still has flaws. And yes, I would rather see a few guilty people walk free than an innocent person spend 35 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
Now they should find anybody “left” that was on the jury or on the prosecution team and put them in jail for 35 years! They made a “bigger mistake” than he did.
Funny, Thomas Jefferson felt exactly the same way.
“He said that his knowing God allows him to harbor no anger.”
He’s a better man than I am.
And Huckabee?
Wow. What a man, now there’s a role model for you.....
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.