Posted on 04/01/2019 5:55:15 PM PDT by Theoria
Kathy Gonzalez knows that many people across the cornfields and cattle ranches of eastern Nebraska believe she is a murderer. It doesnt change the fact that they owe her millions of dollars.
Ms. Gonzalez was one of six innocent people who collectively spent 77 years in prison for the murder of a 68-year-old woman named Helen Wilson, whose death haunted this rural county for decades. Now, years after DNA evidence exonerated the defendants, they are about to collect a $28 million civil rights judgment against Gage County, which prosecuted them based on false confessions.
But because the county has limited financial resources and a dwindling population, nearly all of its 22,000 residents must foot the bill by paying hundreds or thousands of dollars in higher property taxes. County leaders have pleaded for help from state lawmakers, and even flirted with declaring bankruptcy.
Do I think its fair these people are going to have to pay us off? Ms. Gonzalez asked. No. But it wasnt fair what they did to us, either.
The $28 million jury award is one of the largest judgments ever levied against such a small place, say experts who study wrongful convictions. It has stirred resentment in the coffee shops and bars of Beatrice, a small town where suspicions about the defendants known as the Beatrice Six still linger like an oil stain on the road.
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People get all the justice they can afford...little money, little justice...That is our legal system.
So, we need to rely on your ESP as to who they voted for,
The voters put the judge, sheriff, and prosecutor into office. They were exonerated by DNA evidence. They were threatened with the death penalty if convicted.
So they copped a plea and appealed. If anyone should be executed its the Prosecutor and the judge who permitted this travesty.
Like I said, the voters who put these crooks into office are ultimately responsible. And now they get to pay.
Thats our system. But you seem to want to murder the folks who were exonerated. You do realize that makes you sound like Schiff and Nadler, right?
L
It's an If/Then proposition.
I suppose that one could just kill the ringleaders, paint the town red, and transfer the biggest local source of income to the federal government.
You do realize that makes you sound like Schiff and Nadler, right?
You do realize you're calling for the execution of the judge and prosecutor, and claiming that all the votes were unanimous, and cast by people some of whom weren't old enough to vote? No, you don't.
A few questions: I wonder how many of the current 22,000 residents lived there and were 18 years old or older in 1985? And aren’t murder charges state charges? Are murder charges different from county to county?
Right, because like everything done by law enforcement, it's a mastermind and/or conspiracy.
You do realize you’re calling for the execution of the judge and prosecutor,
Yes. I do. Those who make false claims that result in a false conviction should be subject to the same penalty as the crime the exonerated were accused of.
and claiming that all the votes were unanimous,
I never claimed any such thing.
and cast by people some of whom weren’t old enough to vote?
Sucks to be them. Maybe their parents should have paid more attention to the crooked ***holes on the ballot.
Youre the one who called for the exonerated people and their attorneys to be murdered. Not me.
L
Sucks to be them. Sucks to be you, too.
Yep.
Sucks to be you, too.
Not really, I have a nice life.
Serious question. Do you think the Duke LaCross team should have just copped a plea and gone to prison for crimes they didnt commit? Should their lawyers have been executed for daring to sue the DAs office?
Or was that different somehow? If so, please explain to me the difference.
Thanks in advance.
Enjoy your evening.
L
Everytime the citizenry put little effort in to knowing who they employ and fail to insure that things are above board they earn whatever consequences their lackadaisical governance brings about.
I know that this is no longer popular, but this is a concept that the men who wrote the Constitution talked long and hard about.
It’s called responsibility.
You need to know who the people running for office are.
What their history is.
What they are about.
You are responsible for what they do.
Another serious question.
What do you think the remedy should be for those who have been wrongly convicted due to prosecutorial misconduct? A stern talking to for the folks who did it? Send them to bed without their supper?
Killing the victims of the misconduct and their attorneys seems....well.....wrong to me somehow. Im genuinely baffled by your position on this one.
L
Interesting to here their ‘confessions’.....and theirs stories. One said she and others were the town drunks and liked to fight. Just think there’s more to this then we know.
Good read. Americans don't get what The Law can do to them if they're on the wrong side of the bars - even if they're innocent.
Not as bad as the NKVD during the Great Purge, but too many similarities for comfort.
Probably just need to declare bankruptcy. Let a bankruptcy judge sort it out.
None of us were living aboveboard lives, Ms. Gonzalez said. We were all partyers. We were all basically chemically induced idiots."
You are in most rare form tonight, L.
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