In a just world his final settlement would come out of the court employees' retirement fund.
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Posted on 10/31/2014 10:44:37 PM PDT by heartwood
Jennifer Gonnerman: "One night in the spring of 2010, Kalief [Browder] and a friend walking home late from a party in the Bronx, walking down the street and a police car pulled them over. A cop got out and said that a man in the back of his police car had accused Kalief and his friend of robbing him. And Kalief protested that he was innocent. There was nothing found in his pockets or his friends pockets, but they took them into the precinct, into to the station house anyway. Kalief thought it was a misunderstanding that might take an hour or two to clear up, but that's not what happened. He ended up spending three years in jail [without trial]
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We must also strip government officials who were in the chain of ineptitude of their personal immunity. Officials should have a tangible fear of violation of the rights of citizens.
Did he ever return?
No he never returned
And his fate is still unlearn’d
He may sit forever
‘in the cells of Rikers
He’s the man who never returned.
Should be one hell of a lawsuit!
“He was innocent till proven guilty. Not stick him in prison and forget about him.
Fire the prosecutor and raise taxes. Eventually, the people will demand better.”........
Better yet, make the prosecutor and/or those who were responsible for the multiple delays serve the same amount of time the innocent kid served. I would bet there would be a rapid change in how prosecutors handled their cases.
In a just world his final settlement would come out of the court employees' retirement fund.
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Perhaps this system needs to collapse.
Any system that depends on innocents pleading guilty to function obviously needs replacement.
Happy now?
No argument from me. Though the collateral damage from such a collapse would be immense.
And what’s the alternative? Increasing the size and cost of our “justice” system by 5x or 10x?
They (the "law" side) 'can' even lie since they have not sworn in under oath.
I’d like to see the prosecutor serve 3 years too.
Well played!
As a side note, perhaps the inmate should consider himself lucky that he didn't end up like Tom Dooley.
I guess all that money that goes to NY legal aid works like NY welfare, not!
This has little to do with the prosecutors and very much to do with the inept council that drains taxpayer dollars.
Perhaps a forced pro bono system dividing the poor among the cities law firms as as a condition of license would have effect. Just think, they could then all sue each other for incompetence of council.
Sounds like democrap to me.
Why the prosecutor? There are numerous motions that could have and should have been filed by the defense. Legal Aid dropped the ball every bit as much as the prosecutor.
I think it is the Institute for Justice and others that are bringing up the evils of prosecutors leveling extra and extraneous charges to force people to plea bargain, so that those who don’t plea bargain face two and three times as much time in jail if they lose, and they usually lose.
If he was here illegally, he deserved whatever he got.
Kalief Browder, the man jailed, is American-born. The man who accused him of robbery, or who the police said accused him, is the Mexican national.
Agreed! Award him one BEEELLion dollars!
“Further, Browder refused to plead guilty on multiple occasions when it would have led to release. “
Nobody should be forced to plead guilty just to get out of jail. Would you? A conviction would ruin his employment prospects and the rest of his life.
People need to pay for what they allow their government to do. This disconnect where “Oh, no, the government did it, I had nothing to do with it” has got to stop.
I’m not one for running deficits, and New York isn’t one for cutting services.
You play the hand you are dealt.
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