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Teen Spends Years At Rikers Island Without Being Sentenced
NPR ^ | Oct. 2, 2014

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: New York
KEYWORDS: donutwatch
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To: DaveA37

The prosecutor responsible should be prosecuted for false imprisonment.


41 posted on 11/02/2014 2:01:31 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: FreeInWV

Definitely not.

I offered his refusal to plead guilty as support for him being actually innocent, and not simply a law-breaker who was also a victim of prosecutorial conduct and bad law.


42 posted on 11/02/2014 5:47:54 PM PST by heartwood
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To: heartwood

The problem is soverign immunity. Somebody should go to jail for unlawfully incarcerating the kid.


43 posted on 11/02/2014 6:13:39 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Once again, you demonstrate your inability to read and comprehend.


44 posted on 11/03/2014 7:12:04 PM PST by Half Vast Conspiracy (I'm done being even remotely civil.)
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy

Once again you demonstrate what a petty weenie you are.


45 posted on 11/03/2014 7:20:15 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy

Heh


46 posted on 11/03/2014 7:28:06 PM PST by Half Vast Conspiracy (I'm done being even remotely civil.)
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy

Heh


47 posted on 11/03/2014 7:30:42 PM PST by Half Vast Conspiracy (I'm done being even remotely civil.)
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