This guy, at 20, was convicted of two armed robberies and given a 98 year sentence, served 8 years and was released due to a clerical error, lived 6 years as a free man, got married and had kids, then was forced to finish the sentence.
There are arguments on both sides of this. Should he or should he not be forced to finish the sentence?
I think it's horrific that Texas has a rule whereby a trial court can find that you are "not guilty" legally after exculpating evidence (ie, DNA) but cannot compel your release from prison unless the prosecutor consents.
yeah uh i don't care what legalese tells me at a certain point it makes me physically disgusted that legal system asserts that it's okay to execute a legally and provably innocent human being
Additional interesting cases: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-who-went-to-prison-13-years-late-ordered-released/ -Where a man was sentenced in 2000 to 13 years in prison. He was never told where to report, in an appellate hearing, the defense attorney told the judge his client wasn't in jail, but the prosecutor insisted that he was (prison records showed in him jail). Ended up being freed after getting arrested this summer when the prison finally realized it didn't actually have him.
THe guy the movie "blow" was about was released from prison this year :)
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you guys gotta realize: it's multiple counts. it's not just one. it's 98 years because there were two sentences that were supposed to run consecutively, not concurrently. it's not a 98 year sentence but two sentences that add up to 98
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Introduce new legislation, and release him retroactively, sure, but don't bend the system even more by just letting him go.... lol.
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wow haha this was in COLORADO that's wild.
Lima-Marin, now 35, was convicted in 2000 of multiple counts of robbery, kidnapping and burglary after he and another man robbed two Aurora video stores at gunpoint when he was 20.
If the original ruling was 98 years for armed robbery in which no one was harmed, they over sentenced.
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because this is one prison sentence for one individual.
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Wasn't there another case about steroid abuse in the NFL or some sports league, and the dude was obviously guilty. But he couldnt be punished due to a clergical error?
Or maybe I'm thinking of something else... A lot of people were pissed. The people involved in the robberies are probably pissed he was let out after only 8 years.
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you can't really say he shouldn't have to finish the 90 years if you can't contest the original ruling.
