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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The prosecutor responsible should be prosecuted for false imprisonment.
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.
The problem is soverign immunity. Somebody should go to jail for unlawfully incarcerating the kid.
Once again, you demonstrate your inability to read and comprehend.
Once again you demonstrate what a petty weenie you are.
Heh
Heh
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