Comments on: NYC to Pay $6.25 Million to Man Cleared in 1989 Killing

By: joe shmoe

joe shmoe — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 03:09:53 +0000

#5, Sounds like you have no idea how prosecutors work. Nor how this judicial system works. The idea that one gets promoted based on the amount of cases he prosecuted and won convictions is only an incentive to get them to push for a sentence even though he knows he’s turning an innocent man into a victim. They are only interested in getting promoted period! The prosecutor should be investigated if he really “upheld the law” or “violated the law”. Putting an innocent man behind bars, mistake=innocent prosecutor, deliberately=Violated the law and the victims civil rights. Prosecutors are far from the innocent people you think they are!

Imagine, You didn’t commit a crime. The prosecutor wins a conviction for whatever reason (say he sold the jurors the bridge). Now, If you “admit” and “express remorse” you are admitting to a crime (even though you were 1000 miles away at the time of the crime). If you “don’t admit” and “don’t express remorse” you will be locked away for much longer! this is justice, right? I’m not even starting to use actual scenarios where the verdicts were far from correct.

By: Nan

Nan — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 01:20:47 +0000

6.25 million dollars for locking him up for nothing

By: Nan

Nan — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 01:20:08 +0000

The whole judicial system is terrible. Do you think they will pay rubashkin

By: M

Wed, 24 Jun 2015 16:52:29 +0000

This is a horribly sad story and should make us all somewhat disappointed by mistakes committed in our justice system that can ruin people’s lives.

That said, consider for a moment that all judicial systems make some mistakes. Think meseches horiyose and meseches makos. If beis din by mistake gave a person malkos or, worse, skillah, and only afterwards find out that a witness was lying, do you know what happens to the witness? or the dayanim? Nothing.

Mistakes can occur in even the best judicial system, and we believe that HKBH alone can know and understand all the complexities involved, and He alone makes final judgements.

By: akuperma

akuperma — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 15:19:00 +0000

Public Prosecutors are legally required to drop a case if they don’t believe beyond a resonable doubt the person is guilty yet somehow they have decided that their job is to try to convict someone regardless of the evidence. This is a national problem, which is compounded by the fact that most people accused are locked up immediately without any chance of posting bail and are forced to rely on public defenders with limited resources.

By: UncleMo

UncleMo — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 15:12:49 +0000

American “justice” at it’s best.

By: chaimz

chaimz — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 14:46:59 +0000

I agree he should be compensated but why with taxpayer money? The ones who did this should be punished and pay.

By: smartaleck

smartaleck — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 11:16:45 +0000

It’s not enough! Besides paying for his suffering, someone should be paying with his job! This is injustice at it’s worst, most callous and vicious. The judge who sentenced him is a criminal. The DA is an animal. The facts were in front of their faces yet they would rather chalk up another case “solved” though they knew he was innocent!