Author Topic: Wrongfully Jailed men awarded 101 Million Dollars (Read 560 times)

DREDIOCK · « **on:** July 27, 2007, 08:53:06 AM »

BOSTON (July 26) - In a stinging rebuke of the FBI, a federal judge ordered the government to pay a record judgment of $101.7 million because agents withheld evidence that would have kept four men from spending decades in prison for a mob murder they did not commit.

Wrongfully Jailed Men Awared 101 Million Dollars

Why does this not surprise me?

And incidents like this are why I do not trust the patriot act.
All it takes is someone with a bug up their arse

lazs2 · « **Reply #1 on:** July 27, 2007, 08:56:54 AM »

and you are right to not trust a police state.

lazs

Curval · « **Reply #2 on:** July 27, 2007, 09:09:01 AM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
and you are right to not trust a police state.

lazs

Bermuda?

Trell · « **Reply #3 on:** July 27, 2007, 09:32:10 AM »

Those feds should go to jail for life.

I think it would be a fitting punishment.

Shamus · « **Reply #4 on:** July 27, 2007, 09:45:02 AM »

We need to use the death penalty more, had it been in place for these guys the government would have saved $101 million and nobody would have been the wiser.

shamus

Rino · « **Reply #5 on:** July 27, 2007, 10:08:28 AM »

I just feel all warm and fuzzy that the judge decided we needed to pay
these guys millions...sigh, lawyers suck..period.

Maverick · « **Reply #6 on:** July 27, 2007, 10:32:55 AM »

Since this situation happened well before the patriot act was conceived I don't see the connection. Could you clarify how the patriot act was involved?

I'm glad to see that they were exonerated, albeit too late for 2 of them. It also seems that one of the agents also died in custody, I didn't see any info on how many agents were involved or if they are still alive.

The award would have greater impact if it were to come from the agencies funds rather than general tax revenues for the govt. but I doubt that will happen.

Elfie · « **Reply #7 on:** July 27, 2007, 01:35:33 PM »

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Originally posted by Trell
Those feds should go to jail for life.

I think it would be a fitting punishment.

I think it would be a fitting punishment as well.

AWMac · « **Reply #8 on:** July 27, 2007, 01:42:28 PM »

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Originally posted by Curval
Bermuda?

Curval did you ever recover your Moped that was stolen?

Mac

SkyRock · « **Reply #9 on:** July 27, 2007, 01:51:49 PM »

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Originally posted by Rino
I just feel all warm and fuzzy that the judge decided we needed to pay
these guys millions...sigh, lawyers suck..period.

They will get at least 60%, the lawyers will.

Shamus · « **Reply #10 on:** July 27, 2007, 02:03:51 PM »

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Originally posted by SkyRock
They will get at least 60%, the lawyers will.

No they wont.

shamus

Trell · « **Reply #11 on:** July 27, 2007, 02:25:35 PM »

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Originally posted by Rino
I just feel all warm and fuzzy that the judge decided we needed to pay
these guys millions...sigh, lawyers suck..period.

Well all 3 of them went to jail for life, 2 of them died, one of them spent i think 29 years there?
What should they get? a simple "i'm sorry we took half your life?"

Chairboy · « **Reply #12 on:** July 27, 2007, 02:41:02 PM »

Easy Trell! I think Rino's just saying that if they went to jail, they must have been guilty of SOMETHING. Also, he may be suggesting that they should be grateful they had the opportunity to help Our Government. Anything else, and they'd be a bunch of commies.

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #13 on:** July 27, 2007, 03:02:19 PM »

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Originally posted by Shamus
We need to use the death penalty more, had it been in place for these guys the government would have saved $101 million and nobody would have been the wiser.

shamus

then a year after their sentence is carried out find out they were innocent and the families sue the government and the media riding the government for years after?...

AWMac · « **Reply #14 on:** July 27, 2007, 04:48:52 PM »

Dammmm.... I was wrongfully jailed once.

I snuck outta the house once, well several times as a 15 Year Old. But this time was different. I was a Navy Brat (Enlisted) and was going to meet some friends, Navy Brats (Commissioned) at the Golf Course..... so fitting.

Young teen love, music, song, dancing in the Moonlight and drink. 1am on the Greens of the 7th Hole. Lakehurst, NJ. 1973.

Daughters of the Base Commander, Daughter of the Base Deputy Commander... and a few other sweeties. Chaplins Daughter, she was a HornDawg...But I regress...

Great Times Pass....

I come home around 0430 and my Sister does'nt open the door.... my Mom did.

Busted.

I didn't mention that my Dad was working Installation Security that night.

Right away my Dad's sidekick arrives in a SP vehicle, handcuffs me, tossed into the back and transported to the GDunk on Lakehurst where my loving Father is working. I'm placed into a cell across from some Squid who got busted for a DUI, he's somewhat sober by now.

My Loving Father opens my cell and sez I need to go to the bathroom... NOPE ain't gotta pee right now,,,

*Note* At my age I had long hair, tattered, ripped and patched jeans...and maybe a slight attitude... *I'll give Dad that* But I was just gettin what I could be gettin from the Officers Daughters.. I was doing GREAT...

Well I go escorted into the Latrine by Dad and he wailed on me, pissed him off that I was old enough to block most of his punches... He tired, I tired... He tossed me back into the Cell...I looked at the Squid in the other Cell with a bruised eye and said... "They said yer next".. he frikken broke down.

But with all that said my Dad was the best and we laffed at this for the longest afterwards... fond memories.

Years later Dad asked me how I knew how to block crap like that...

I miss my Dad.

Mac