“There are a lot of folks who would willingly trade ten or so years of “imprisonment” for millions of dollars in settlement money..”
Well, that’s an interesting concept, but without reading the article I doubt it applies here.
First off this guy was in jail for over 20 years, nobody’s going to want to do that much time as a ‘substitute’ convict.
Secondly, cops get false confessions all the time, part of the job is to ensure they DON’T arrest/convict innocent people.
I’m pretty sure that, sad as it is to say, we’ve got a bigger problem with corrupt/inept workers in the Justice system than we have with people seeking to do time falsely so they can sue later.
I’m really not even sure that anyone HAS ever done that.
From my experience with the TN justice system I can say you are very accurate in your beliefs.
Probation & Parolee’s
https://www.ncjrs.gov/txtfiles/ppvsp91.txt
This is an older study as there are no newer ones, this gives you a big idea of just how many additional early release of criminals to parole and probation cause. n 1991, 45% of State prisoners were persons who, at the time they
committed their offense, were under conditional supervision in the community—either on probation or on parole. They then committed an additional 74,400 new crimes. Their original crimes add up to 25,900. The NEW crimes FAR out ceded their REPEAT CRIMES.
Based on the offense that brought them to prison, the 162,000 probation violators committed at least 6,400 murders, 7,400 rapes, 10,400 assaults, and 17,000 robberies, while under supervision in the community an
average of 17 months.
Based on the offense that brought parolees back to prison, these 156,000 offenders committed at least 6,800 murders, 5,500 rapes, 8,800 assaults, and 22,500 robberies, while under supervision in the community an average of 13 months.
Word of caution, crime is not counted accurately. More of our governments fuzzy math tricks. It is Hierarchical Counted, only the most serious crime is counted if there were actually 4 crimes committed at the time. Kidnap, rape, rob then kill a person, only the murder counts. Rest flushed down the toilet.
Recidivism
http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=17
These offenders had accumulated 4.1 million arrest charges before their most recent imprisonment and another 744,000 charges within 3 years of release.
Please help this 8 year old little girl get the justice she was promised by 2 juries. TN Gov email is bill.haslam@tn.gov
END THE SENSELESS APPEALS PROCESS!
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2012/dec/20/millington-death-row-inmate-loses-bid-to-reopen/?print=1
This is going on 20 years of appeals. DNA & confession proved he did it.
He raped, strangled to death with her OWN SHOE LACES Nicki Read and then threw her body in the river. Even helped hunt for what was thought to be a missing child. The INJUSTICE system does not give a flip how much money or grief it causes the victim’s family to have this crap delayed and delayed, and then finally some anti-death penalty justice will void the sentence and give life with parole, which means more grief to fight the suckers. And criminals have MORE rights that the victim or victim’s family!
Governor Bill Halsam has yet to set a date or sign the death warrant, ask him how long Nicki’s mom has to wait for justice.
bill.haslam@tn.gov
Murder in Memphis. http://truecrimebookreviews.com/2011/06/murder-in-memphis-dorris-porch-rebecca-easley-deborah-william-groseclose/ This creep hired men to murder his young wife. Let them into the house, while he slipped out with the kids. She was Raped, stabbed, beatened, strangled until she passed out. Stuffed into the trunk of her car, which was then relocated down town, where she is still alive, she COOKED TO DEATH in the 100 + summer temps of Memphis. A anti-death penalty federal judge and 2 state supreme court judges kept blocking the use of the DP. They finally were retried, found guilty again, and given Life WITH parole. There is 1 sick sister left to fight the parole hearings.
THIS IS A ON GOING HATE CRIME. Black on White. Best have a very strong stomach to read it.
The Gruesome Story of a Murdered Tennessee Couple You May Have Never Heard – But That You Will Never Forget
http://www.knoxnews.com/photos/galleries/sets/channon-christian-and-chris-newsom-murders/
I think that faked wrongful imprisonment would be fairly easy to rule out. In order to try to purposely be “wrongly imprisoned”, wouldn’t a gold digger have to confess and try to contrive some sort of evidence? If a confession is on record, and it is later shown the person is innocent, and video evidence shows the confession was not coerced in any way—I think wrongful imprisonment would be difficult to prove.
In the Tim Masters case—which was the subject of a documentary—he never confessed, and always maintained his innocence. Furthermore, there was never physical evidence that linked him to the crime. He received $10 million for wrongful imprisonment.