Localamos:


The smart pants praised America's 'sound' judicial system. Not me. So he has to define what sound means.

True, the gesture is touching (in a positive way), but it is because their system isn't sound, that's why an innocent man was made to spend all of his productive years in jail. Except there is a new definition to 'sound'.

And I think the word you meant to use is erred, not aired.

stevecantrell:


Rodney King got 2 Million and was found dead in his swimming pool years later...foul play ?

Dharniel:
An African American man who spent nearly 40 years behind bars in the US state of Ohio for a murder he did not commit will receive $1 million from the state for his wrongful imprisonment.
On Thursday, an Ohio Court of Claims judge ordered that just more than $1 million be paid to Ricky Jackson.
Jackson said he learnt about the payment from a reporter who had called him on Thursday afternoon to get his reaction over the court order.
“Wow, I didn’t know that,” Jackson said. “Wow wow wow, that’s fantastic, man. I don’t even know what to say. This is going to mean so much.”
Michele Berry, his attorney from the Innocence Project, said a financial advisor will help Jackson to handle the money in the wisest way.
After hearing the news of the court order, Berry became emotional and expressed her appreciation for all that the innocent black man went through.
“It’s been an honor to work for and with Ricky,” she said. “He’s probably the wisest person I’ve ever met.”
In November, Jackson, 57, and Wiley Bridgeman, 60, were both exonerated in a 1975 murder after a key witness against them, who was 13 years old at the time, admitted in 2013 that he lied during his testimony.
Eddie Vernon, now 53, told a minister who visited him at a hospital in 2013 that he had never actually witnessed the crime. He said Cleveland police detectives coerced him into testifying that the men killed businessman Harry Franks on May 19, 1975.
The Ohio Innocence Project, which took up their case, said Jackson and Bridgeman’s 39 years imprisonment mark them as the longest-serving exonerees in US history.
According to a study released in April, one in every 25 death row inmates in the United States is innocent. Approximately 3,000 US prisoners are waiting to be put to death.
African Americans are also far more likely to be arrested and imprisoned by police than any other racial group, according to a recent analysis by USA TODAY.
Experts say the dramatic gap in arrest and prison rates reflects biased policing as well as the vast economic and educational inequalities that plague much of the US.

http://saharareportersrescue.com/2016/05/05/for-spending-40-years-in-jail-wrongly-us-court-awards-african-man-1-million/

Dharniel:
An African American man who spent nearly 40 years behind bars in the US state of Ohio for a murder he did not commit will receive $1 million from the state for his wrongful imprisonment.
On Thursday, an Ohio Court of Claims judge ordered that just more than $1 million be paid to Ricky Jackson.
Jackson said he learnt about the payment from a reporter who had called him on Thursday afternoon to get his reaction over the court order.
“Wow, I didn’t know that,” Jackson said. “Wow wow wow, that’s fantastic, man. I don’t even know what to say. This is going to mean so much.”
Michele Berry, his attorney from the Innocence Project, said a financial advisor will help Jackson to handle the money in the wisest way.
After hearing the news of the court order, Berry became emotional and expressed her appreciation for all that the innocent black man went through.
“It’s been an honor to work for and with Ricky,” she said. “He’s probably the wisest person I’ve ever met.”
In November, Jackson, 57, and Wiley Bridgeman, 60, were both exonerated in a 1975 murder after a key witness against them, who was 13 years old at the time, admitted in 2013 that he lied during his testimony.
Eddie Vernon, now 53, told a minister who visited him at a hospital in 2013 that he had never actually witnessed the crime. He said Cleveland police detectives coerced him into testifying that the men killed businessman Harry Franks on May 19, 1975.
The Ohio Innocence Project, which took up their case, said Jackson and Bridgeman’s 39 years imprisonment mark them as the longest-serving exonerees in US history.
According to a study released in April, one in every 25 death row inmates in the United States is innocent. Approximately 3,000 US prisoners are waiting to be put to death.
African Americans are also far more likely to be arrested and imprisoned by police than any other racial group, according to a recent analysis by USA TODAY.
Experts say the dramatic gap in arrest and prison rates reflects biased policing as well as the vast economic and educational inequalities that plague much of the US.

http://saharareportersrescue.com/2016/05/05/for-spending-40-years-in-jail-wrongly-us-court-awards-african-man-1-million/

dovelike:
Absolute rubbish!!! Spending that amount of years in prison doesn't mean sleeping and eating all day. What if he was sexually harrased there? Its very common. This can never happen to a white person. All those racist fuuls!

dovelike:
Absolute rubbish!!! Spending that amount of years in prison doesn't mean sleeping and eating all day. What if he was sexually harrased there? Its very common. This can never happen to a white person. All those racist fuuls!

lawrenzooo:

Tell me one nation where there is no possibility of an innocent man going to jail? Judicial systems rely on witnesses and If a witness can tell a lie and defend it then I don't think we should blame the judicial system as there no place where such cannot happen.

All the same thanks for the correction.

GloriaNinja:
What's FTC?

Akshow:
Bullsheet! Just one million dollars for forty years? The compensation is very shabby. Forty years of his youthful life was taken for crying out loud! I'm pissed.

Stallione:
oooh my gosh,ua so pretty!!!

kalu01:
i think it means front page.

Sunnycliff:
Tears of Joy! But how on earth should America of All nation Wrongly incarcerate someone for 40 good years!

In fact that money too small o!

THYRAIN:
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Sunnycliff:
Tears of Joy! But how on earth should America of All nation Wrongly incarcerate someone for 40 good years!

In fact that money too small o!

SillyeRabbit:
More than 200 million naira. Baba God ooo.

GloriaNinja:
Such thing will never happen in Nigeria.

flyken:


Don't tell me you're glorifying this injustice because of one million dollars. Poverty sucks.


Years he will never get back

GANJAFARMER:
But a typical Black man will suck it up and and bear the brunt.

He should get guj and a shoot somebody in charge of the justice system of where he was convicted and jailed , drop the cheque or whatever document that was attached to the one million dollar and kill himself to pass a message to the biased justice system that has constantly and wrongly in a systemic way jailed innocent black boys over a crime they know nothing about.

Explorers:


Abi o, a million dollars that some people will make in months.

chidozieikeji2:
u think money is everything so u don't know that this guy didn't marry and also he don't have children where will he start now an even if he has children don't u know the children have been deprived of fatherly care wich is very important

Peacetemi:
I disagree with you sir. 40years?? If Bill Gates had spent 40 years in jail, and after his release got paid 1million dollars, would he be the billionaire that he is?? They already killed the man's destiny, God save us from such things. Amen!!

Isoni:
This can only happen in a country with a sound judiciary system.

Here in Burkina Faso we all envy this man

Sunnycliff:
Tears of Joy! But how on earth should America of All nation Wrongly incarcerate someone for 40 good years!

In fact that money too small o!

DICKtator:



Can't you read?

Please read and digest every words written before commenting.

Thank you!!

GloriaNinja:
can Nigeria offer an innocent released inmate one million naira? hell no!

otiigba1:

Because nigeria is a Zoo. Some politician will proberbly divert the money in his own pocket and keep the innocent man in prison indefinitely perharps even murdered so as to cover the injustice/corruption/divertion of the money up

Leiman100:
which man?