Wrongly Convicted Richard Rosario Stuns Judge at Hearing | NBC Nightly News 

@@user-je5rg7es8l hopefully he chooses not to incarnate I'm definitely not coming back after I'm done here.

They can start by giving him a $1,000,000 per year served 👍

Take it out of the officers pension

Yeah they should probably force whoever is responsible for not taking appropriate professional action.to pay out of their wallet for mistakes. Maybe even conviction, this way those in charge of cases in the future will be very careful in taking proper due process to make sure every case is taken care of correctly and thoroughly, as they would have to pay for their mistakes if not...

TRUE, But what they should do is pay this man a MILLION DOLLARS for EVERY YEAR HE SPENT IN JAIL They should do this for all the wrongfully convicted. Then maybe next time they'll do a better job at finding out the truth.

That's a very good idea.

Top 10 Archive Can't do that. Legally it would bankrupt out country. Oh you thought this was rare did you? haha.

M B 242 people likes the comment you alone are arguing against. I wonder what that means

I might try to write that bill

Top 10 Archive .

Philip Fong yep the just-us system should be punished

America?

Computer Guy oh yes

He fit the description tho...Hispanic Male.

@@dresheraton9276 You already know 👏

GB it wasn't the judge who was the problem, there were two eye witnesses and know others at the trial, it was the fault of the police, the DA and his solicitor, no one contacted his witnesses ? why not ? he should sue the police & the DA and needs a good solicitor this time, not the crap he had before.

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Jail them for what? There's no proof that anything they did was technically illegal. The answer should be to pass new laws to prevent injustices like this from happening again, or at least change some of the existing laws, if it's necessary or even possible.

@@annielopez6550 And this is connected to this case HOW?

@@frankale174 And this is connected to this case HOW?

Shabnam Hussain Reckon its properly one of the cop. Easy cover up and choose a scapegoat.

The main criminal is the nypd

Hopefully he will receive millions of dollars for this wrongful conviction and for taking 20 years of his life away.

Nah that guy is probably dead or got pinched for something else

@@bingbongwingwong ....let's hope law enforcement cares enough to find out.

It's actually mindblowingly sad when you really take it in

They’ve wasted the best years of his life! I’d be furious and I don’t think I could ever forgive the system.

I wish for the people who were so quick to prosecute rather than investigate did the same annoy but of prison time. I'll settle for their pensions going to this strongly convicted man.

Longer than I been alive

1hourOfLove talk about loosing the prime of your life

Fax

Purnima Gurung I never had faith in the justice system to begin with.

I believe in vigilante justice

💯

Lady Justice is blind folded. What does that tell ya.?

Not decades. Centuries.

For the entire time.

Agreed. Accountability is key to a fair & transparent justice system.

Think this is crazy! Temujin Kensu was convicted of a murder that happened in 1986. He was 400 miles away when it happened. He too had dozens of witnesses place him 400 miles away. Even worse! the prosecution came up with a theory that he hired a plane to fly to where the crime happened, killed the guy and flew back. They never presented any evidence of this so called flight, no flight records, no pilot, no plane, nothing! he has spent the last 37 years in prison and is still there today. #FreeTemujinKensu

Yes!!

Or life!!!

Twice as much

You know that will never happen they sweep it under the rug

@@ManuelGarcia-uv9fb Anything is possible in this case !

They cant accept thet fact that they made a mistake

@@pohpoh8158 thank you dr obvious

@@RSA2022 No need for that. Besides, he's right.

@@user-roninwolf1981 ....He is right. He should say it. It isn't so obvious to those who did this to this man. Obviously.

@@RSA2022....Did it ever occur to you that the scum who did this to this man felt free to do so because no one pointed out the obvious? Just because something is obvious doesn't mean it should not be said. All the more reason it should. Don't you think? Giving voice to what is obvious in this case is an act of righteousness. Your post, well not so much.

Exactly why I DO NOT agree with the death penalty!!!!! How many TRULY innocent individuals have we MURDERED?!

What difference is there between killing someone and taking away their freedom for their entire life? The issue is much deeper. Innocent until PROVEN guilty is no more.

Crazy Panda the difference is in possibility of innocence still being proven like in this case. No use for that if theyre dead.

Brian The police just wanted a easy job. Charge this guy and be done with it.

Policies that George floyd the hackers

They have immunity. See, were all slaves.

The USofA is broken, and badly so.

💯 and give the POS exactly twice as much time

@@Heatherrrrr-uh2sl facts💯 we live in slavelandia. Search gerald celente on you tube there is more than being slave. Specially fiat system this is our new shackle.

I feel what you are saying but there was two witnesses saying he did it. It's a hard one..

Ya and the tax payers foot the bill

J D That’s ridiculous. If they only went by what the two witnesses say, then that implies he was behind bars for a he said/they said situation. They had the due diligence to contact Rosario’s alibis, which they didn’t. That’s just neglectful and shady, and they should be accountable for the 20 years that Rosario lost.

@J D there are people that will “witness” against someone for a reward. Here in DC they give people $25,000 for any info on a homicide that leads to a conviction. My brother almost lost his freedom to 4 “witnesses” that positively identified him as the killer. He was shown entering a gas station multiple times across town, at the time of the crime and nowhere close to where the murder happened, the case got thrown out.

@@JD-ml7cg that's a stupid comment. He had 12 witnesses to confirm his alibi but they never contacted them for their testimony. Don't try to cover for the corrupt system.

If I KNEW my man was innocent I'd be standing by him as well. 🤜🏾

Yeah but do you really think she wasn't getting deep D'ed the entire time like he was in prison.

@@dr.vinnyboombatz22 Doesn't matter what you think. Stop making nonsense accusations.

@@lionheart9557 As much as it doesn't matter what you think. What's your next move?

Thinking SAME. KUDOS for him & HIS FAMILY!

They should get death because they play with life

Mainly the witnesses that said it was him obviously identify the wrong person on purpose or an accident so they shouldn't have no blame ?

@@killer44spl - Or the cops bent them to lie. They do all the time. Sometimes just to close the case because they're lazy, sometimes they have grudges, all the time because their racists. They like railroading people because it puts even more fear in people. The judges and prosecutors too because that helps to get people to "plea" guilty. 96% of all convictions are from guilty pleas because people know they don't stand a chance, and you are punished with more severe charges and longer sentences if you maintain your innocence. Where was this guy's defense attorney? Why didn't the attorney check the alibi witnesses? Because they were court appointed and they're in the railroad game too. They just pretend to represent. Trust me I used to work in the courts and see this all the time. It's utterly corrupt. They don't care who did what they just exist to put fear into working people.

John Dunn the justice system across the nation needs to be remodeled, just redo all of it.

If I spent that long i ln jail for a crime i didnt committ i would have kept the case open too and sued everyody

Think this is crazy! Temujin Kensu was convicted of a murder that happened in 1986. He was 400 miles away when it happened. He too had dozens of witnesses place him 400 miles away. Even worse! the prosecution came up with a theory that he hired a plane to fly to where the crime happened, killed the guy and flew back. They never presented any evidence of this so called flight, no flight records, no pilot, no plane, nothing! he has spent the last 37 years in prison and is still there today. #FreeTemujinKensu

Period and point blank.

Gregory Johnson the people who were involved in the disposition (judge, witnesses, jury, detectives, etc) were only going with what evidence they had. If 3 independent witnesses identified him as the subject, that’s pretty black and white evidence. It’s unknown what could’ve motivated the witnesses, or if it was just someone who looked exactly like the subject. It’s never a perfect system, but it’s better than no system. Obviously it’s never intentional when an innocent man is convicted, and I’m guessing it’s a pretty rare occurrence, regardless of what social justice media spouts.

In order to convict an innocent man they had to lie, conceal exculpatory evidence, create evidence etc. My son was almost 16 years old. Mt daughter was 4 at the time and had a tablet. My niece was 8 and had taken a video of my daughter's private parts, when my sister baby sat. My son sold the tablet, and someone found the video and turned over to Police. My 8 year old niece could clearly be seen touching my daughter. Police came to my house reported to DCF my sone was perpetrator and never put an any paper work there was a video. The police told my sister there was a video and it accidentally out. I had $50£ and enough knowledge during the hearing ro request I be given time to get an attorney. I git an attorney that had dealt with a prior case in which his client almsot got sent to jail off lies. Im sure had I not had money my know almost 20 year old son would be in prison and the video destroyed. DCF scrubbed their notes and all types id stuff. Unfortunately I am from Florida

@@bandbuddy5396 i have to disagree with you there. Somewhere along the way somebody decided to suppress evidence that called this man's guilt into question. I know sometimes they do their best and still get it wrong but more often than not it's a detective or D.A. trying to pad their resume. In our criminal justice system convictions are how you advance your career. Getting it right is less important.

Yes

In the Philippines one can be jailed for trumpped up charges and planted evidence...put you in jail with no space even to stand on.

@@trumpymcdonald9748 this is true this happened to my brother in law luckily he can afford an attorney and sundenly police are very kind to him lol

This is a strange case. It's the "job" of the police to try to prove the defendant is guilty, not to go crazy chasing down every defense witness that might provide an alibi. It's his own defense lawyer's job to talk to his witnesses and drag them into court to testify in favor of the defendant.

@febri patar ... It's not a matter of how I think. I'm just telling you how the system works. If a defendant has a witness, the onus is on his defense attorney to make sure that testimony is presented at trial. It might not seem fair in this case and I don't like it either, but the failure here is due to his own lawyer's incompetence.

@@halibaitor Here is an example of good police work: Detectives believe a subject committed a crime based on description and a FOUR point fingerprint hit (fingerprints are in the system due to a concealed carry weapons permit). Subject informs detectives that at the time of the crime he was out of the country. Subject's attorney is called. Meanwhile Detectives check subject's alibi with passport control and DHS. DHS passport control confirms subject's alibi. Subject is released before attorney arrives. That is how the system is supposed to work. Good detectives follow up on information. So do good prosecutors, especially on murder cases. You are correct in saying that his attorney (probably an under-funded over worked Public Defender) should have hunted down these witnesses before trial. However, the detectives should have done their due diligence well before the case went to trial and before charges could be filed.

@david stewart Sometimes when this happens, defendant is suspected of committing other crimes they couldn't get him for. Or maybe they wanted to get anybody in his gang. Why wasn't more done in the 20 years to get him out, with all these witnesses & other evidence. Were their people on both sides that did not want him out? The victim's sister went to see him after arrested. She said his attitude was so bad that she believed he committed the crime. Will be interesting to see how much actually comes out. i'll bet lot's of people will be covering themselves. Including some of his old acquaintances.

jjon5606 money or lack thereof is why, lawyers cost money

Legal aids work for the courts

When your public defender plays golf with the judge... you know the rest

Prolly had a public pretender

Yep. IMMUNITY with power to destroy any life. IMO.

wrongful imprisonment compensation can range from 40-65k for every year that person has been in prison, meaning he will be getting 1.2-1.8 million dollars as compensation for the 20 years he has been imprisoned IF cleared of all charges.

@@tonybologna3 what % of innocents are cleared of charges? Rhetorical question.

Yeah very simple. He could have made maybe 100k / Year? Thats 2 million they owe him in money he could not earn. Plus they have robbed him of 20 years of his life and made these 20 years horrible. thats another 5 million in my opinion. So yeah. This man should be given 7 million dollars tax free.

@@tonybologna3 plus punitive damages. I'd say 100 million TAX FREE would be fair.

You sir are correct,you hit the nail on the head

They probably had one public defender for a ridiculous number of cases at a time. It's a huge problem in the US Justice system.

Definitely the public defender has so many cases on their plate it's impossible for them to give the client 100 percent . Defenses cost a ton a lot of times they don't get the money needed to hire experts or fly in witnesses . I was in court for a traffic ticket but they also had more serious offenses the public attorney in one sitting when each person cane up for the charges the y opted for public defender and she at least gave her card to 30 people . If she is there even once a week that's 120 clients a month . Most towns or cities have only 2 public defenders in their office . Yr screwed if u don't have money . People have to sell their homes give up retirement money to pay for their child's private attorney and if convicted UR not only out that money but ur loved one is in prison for a crime they didn't commit. Their is that old saying " id rather have 100 guilty men go free than one innocent man in prison.

pizzafrenzyman he works for the government. Gets paid regardless of performance. But gets points foe having closed a case in public mind

chris532008 prosecutors work for the government and get paid either way, too, but they are given markedly more resources.

Exactly

Lori W and please do not give us that crap about police being over worked. Lori I give you a link to an original video of mine (it is in brackets) I hope you give it a look [KAMALA HEY! Beatle tune gave (tuvokspock@gmail.com) the idea for this video. - RU-vid ]

There should be a movie made based on this

The Law Abiding Citizen is somewhat similar. The fun part is that the protagonist served justice with his own hands.

@@ritaranee4787 , There should be legal convictions made, based on this. And, included in the movie.

But your eyes can play tricks on you. Your mind likes to fill in gaps in what it sees. You could be 100% convinced of something and it not be true. Eyewitness testimony should never be the sole convicting evidence. It's insanely inaccurate. Thank god we have cctv and just about every person in the country has a cell phone with a camera in their hands.

Robert Jones Agreed

@Nightraid yourface Indeed. I think about this from time to time. Imagine you witnessed someone you loved murdered and you were 100% sure it was the guy when the police brought in the lineup. You go to trial and they convict. You spend your life hating this person. Then find out you were wrong and have put an innocent person in jail for years all the while thinking the case was solved. Tragedy all over again. Every person this case touched damaged them except for the person actually guilty. The world is so disturbing.

Yeah um okay...False wittnesses came forward and lied on Jesus during His illegal trial as well. Lying in court goes back as far as Daniel.

lying should be life in prison especially for something like this. they go home and enjoy their lives whilst destroying othet families

He'll probably get 2 million, and that's gonna take 10 years in court proceedings.

@MackAlot 510 no in this case

It shouldn't be about the years they lost it should be about the years they have left to live with nothing and the bad reputation looming over their head. Most of these people no matter if they were proven innocent people will still treat them like they are guilty.

@john doe talk is cheap

i would spend 10 years in jail for 100 million.

Why the judge? He is doing his job with the information provided to him. Execute the rest though

Yup and 20 mil compensation for wrongfuly convicted. Of wait 20 mil for him/family only. They should pay his attorney also separately

Forward those pensions, or a portion of them, to the Rosario family.

The judge? You are just ignorant. Unless you know the judge was bribed or knew something that none of us knows. A judge presides to protect the law and keep order in the courtroom. He isn’t part of the defense, prosecution or jury!

I so agree!!!!

Exactly

Dom s they didnt even contact the witnesses!!!

@@omargraham8591 That is the job of the defense attorney to contact their clients' alibi witnesses. The cops aren't gonna do that, unless they think one of their suspect's witnesses is going to say something that is going to help their case.

100 percent true.

@@collinhennessy3190 : Yeah, I have to wonder why the defendant's attorneys didn't contact the alibi witnesses. What happened there?

they should be doing a lot of time as well.

Agreed n fired n jailed

Brian Eubanks no he is a criminal piece of s***

He needs to be in prison

Worse than that, they should be put in jail. Knowing someone is innocent and actively putting them is a crime itself.

Not sure but I’m guessing a public defender who’s motivation is to close the case asap.

Could those witnesses not go to the first trial and demand to be heard?

He had a public pretender… Oops I meant public defender

@@lillic8522 Odds are they would have been held in contempt and removed from the courtroom. And sadly, the public defender does try to close cases asap because of the sheer number of cases they are saddled with. Talk to a public defender sometimes and you'll never use one. One of my old college prof. was a former public defender and he said he'd have anywhere from 50-200 cases a month and his average time to look over them was 15mins per case.

@@alstead6898 so this is the great American justice??? I‘m really glad I live in Europe - every day more so!

Of course he is innocent, he isn‘t black

Al Ri bro you a sooooo funny

Derek Kessler sounds fair.

That is not nearly enough. He lost 20 years his kids lost 20 years without a father, a mother and father 20 years without their son, wife 20 years without a husband, siblings as well. There is no way for Justice in this case. People need to go to prison for this just to come near justice. 20 for 20.

How about a million dollars a day.

If you can't keep the jails full, you can't ask for more $$$, more resources and higher pay chqs, yr in and yr ...Give someone a financial incentive to do something, guess what, they will do it anyway, anyhow...Give them qualified immunity, little oversight, lack of accountability/transparency - you get jails filled to the brim - Cops making $125k a yr, D.A.s $200k and Judges +$250k - ain't nobody gonna rock that MONEY boat, son...

I don't know about $20 million but based on the average wage, if he was paid that for every hour he spent in prison it would come to about $3.5 million.

25 yrs

Horacio Salinas no, the D. A.

Horacio Salinas Juries convict people, not judges.

Nah

Juries convict people not judges

Imagine all the innocent people executed over the years...

@@nicholassullivan1239 I agree

Judge just said its all for a reason.. its not an accident.. there is a purpose behind it all...lol

Imagine all the innocent people convicted to a coffin they didn’t deserve. I wouldn’t wish anyone in prison for something they didn’t do but at least they have a chance.

@@20BMR that is so true

Sadly, no human being will likely be able to fully mentally recover. Those are memories, missed connections, relationships, experiences that could have taken place, but never will. Time has been stolen from the life of this man. That is the GREATEST robbery one can commit!

@@jensz9360 exactly what I was gonna say

@@oldwarmonger8750 We both were thinking it because its the God hnest truth. The people who lied on this man should be forced to forfeit their life savings that they earned as judges, prosecutors and other liars involved and then spend min 10 years in prison (general population) then be eligible to beg for parole.

He filed a lawsuit in September of 2019 seeking damages. Maybe he'll find peace after he financially secures his family's future.

Land of the Free and the greatest nation on earth 😂 Lmfao so proud not to be an american as the justice system imprisons and executes innocent people especially if ur non white

King Tubb I think they do pay him so upsetting

I pray that he not only gets financial restitution, But also a renewed look at life. His memories Of that cell will haunt him 4-ever. How do U put a value on that? God watch over you My Brother.

He should press kidnapping charges on the 🐖s, the prosecutor, and the judge involved!!!!

Anybody wrongfully convicted gets paid and the more time you do the more you get so he will be really good

I don't think he will get paid out sense his name has not been fully cleared yet. I cannot find a follow up on this. Have you seen anything new on the case?

It’ll definitely help at this point. What else can be done? We need a time machine

He won't receive any money, there is no compensation. I was never even convicted for what they accused me for and all I got was a dismissal and lost time from my life.

@@ilove9489 He can sue for money and win.

@@suras8984 Says who and what law? He was wrongfully convicted. Not using his evidence is not the role of a prosecutor. Plus all police, judges and prosecutors have immunity when they're acting within their job.

@@suras8984 The real question you should concern yourself with is, how can someone that is innocent be found guilty.

LOL millions, not in today's inflation, more like billions

And by the time it actually happens Trillions!

There's actually a sent number for these kind of situations. I mean one guy in Alabama spent almost 40 years and they have him 75 thousand for every year he was locked up. Oh and they still have to pay taxes out of that. That number could be different in ever state.

clinton kelley Believe in God

best the us government can give him is 3.50

So does his lawyer

The state should pay him too

They died already

So you think that the officers should be charged for something they didn't know? You don't punish people for making mistakes they didn't mean to do, you punish people to teach them a lesson.

@@onedayyoumay6216 unless it was racially motivated

Can you imagine having THIRTEEN alibi witnesses and still being sent to prison bcuz ppl have already made up their minds that you're guilty.

James exactly.

Totally agree, I can't believe it either, it's shocking

That's what happened quite a lot in the past and still happens today, they just want to catch someone and move on with their lives. It gives them recognition and they can fill up the prisons, which receive more money/funding. Obama wanted to make it even EASIER when he was president when he wanted to pass a bill that ANYONE could go to prison without evidence if certain people wanted to. Yes, he actually said that to the public, but the media buried it. Obviously you can still watch the video yourself. Either way, even you could be put at the scene of a crime when you would be on vacation across the world. Many of them don't care.

@James All men of color only!🤔🤨

Either a cop, a cops family, or a cops informant, or a cops gang banging buddy.

@ 888 - Oh, I'm sure that is in the making, as it should be. TWENTY YEARS the state of New York took from him.

I don't know if he can while it's an open case. I'm really not sure. If he let them go ahead and close it, he absolutely could and would win.

@John Arch maybe this will motivate the taxpayers to force the criminal justice system to be reformed. The people who are involved in carrying out a breach of justice should be penalized. Send their tails to prison and strip them of their positions, benefits and pensions.

I would sue them for trillions maybe even own the city!

cant sue government. read the law

Adam what???

Adam Watson You're trolling, right?

@1Eluzai Or living in your neighborhood.

@Barrier Boy true

It was problaby a COP...but the police department will protect their OWN...

@@ethanrodriguez5722 that's the truth.

That's EXACTLY what he was saying. Gotta read between the lines. Regardless "I didn't do it."

I really don't understand how a solid alibi can be ignored.

Dude if I spent years in prison for something I didn't do I would hateful asf.

Retributive Justice

@@pete3816 Yes. Yes I would.

@@pete3816 The jury did it work the real problem is in the witnesses who misled everyone intentionally or unintentionally to get him 01:33 wich at this point they are probably nowhere to be found.

Pete he was denied due process if his witnesses didn’t get an opportunity to testify.

dex gen 😂

Lol

He doesn't even say it immediately, lol

😂

Well, that story sure gives Twilight a run for its money.

The federal wrongful conviction compensation statute is the only statute that offers higher compensation for those who spent time on death row. Under the federal statute, a person can be awarded up to $50,000 per year of wrongful imprisonment and up to $100,000 per year on death row. so if he was jailed for 20 years he will get like 1 million year dollars , poor guy 1mil isnt worth 20 years of his life

Lakrioui Karim that’s just ridiculous. Should be a million for each wrongful year and even that isn’t enough. Twenty years of memories, happiness, family, friends all gone down the drain. It’s insanity.

Yeah and where does this money magically come from? Are you going to pay it? Life sucks, move on.

@@mrluckymatt890 you can definitely say that because u were not in his shoes

@@mrluckymatt890 20 years of FALSE imprisonment...and youre telling him to move on that easily?? Wow. *Clap2*

Millions? Billions dude, 20 years in prison for nothing, man i feel sad

LMAO Thats what i want to know.. It smells .... Like someone way paid off to give a alibi

That is exactly what I was wondering. The defense atty needs to serve 20 years, too.

this is f@#$king with my head . why didn't . the guy who is now a cop . just walk into the Court room . and say this . . the judge would have to do something . that's there job .

Probably it was a public defender and didn’t want to bother.

It's actually higher it more like 42% according to some estimates Death Row is worse than that it's a system that is designed to make money not justice

And that's actually the TRUTH.. Thug cops fabricating evidence , maliciously DESTROYING your life , for what ??? It doesn't matter , cops set people up so they can be big bad po po ... That's the TRUTH of it , and YOU CAN ACTUALLY BE NEXT , IF WE DON'T MAKE THES CRIMINAL GANG MEMBERS WITH BADGES ACCOUNTABLE..

Its all about the money they dont care a bout your family if u can get slammed in the slammer to make money they will throw you in no problem. .whatever makes them money

@@joshmarauder You're right , seeing that happen right now in SOUTHEAST GEORGIA.

@@willwinn8559 so much for innocent untill proven guilty....more like guilty untill proven innocent ..25years of his life thats half of his life he will never get back

Amarinder Bhullar the judge can’t convicted people in America

40avo then why would he put them all there

@Riccardo Curatola To spread the Gospel and his butt cheeks

@@40avo Amen

40avo God knows but he didn’t do anything. At least as far as I know. And in our country many more died on the spot with police saying the suspek “tried to escape and steal their guns”. And the majority of the “christian” people here even applaud those policemen killing the suspeks thinking that all suspeks are automatically guilty. My country is the Phillipines btw. Lol

You would shed tears of the numbers.

Exactly! It's unbelievable that the prosecutor presented this case to the judge and jury without providing them with all the information and witness testimony available. How can a judge and jury make an informed decision when there's information missing? Isn't this obstruction of justice?

The prosecution side has a tendency to go for the low hanging fruit to get their next feather in their cap when it comes to getting a conviction, so they had to exclude any witnesses whose testimony could exonerate him. Those witnesses who wrongly singled him out made him low hanging fruit for the prosecution.

ty guys I agree with all of u the attorney is to blaim mainly then the witnesses were bs for not breaking thru and living comfy while he rotted. and the system shouldn't give badges of honor bs low laying fruit that are a stretch to convict

@Yo Mama ....I would do the same. Good to know there are people who still believe in right and wrong. Quaint though the notion might be to some. To others, it's what it's all about.

So is this about you, the wrongly convicted man, or the DA from 20 years ago? YOUR EDIT IS GROSS IN THIS CONTEXT

Anita Luca I’m sure he did they probably don’t talk about it because they make settlements with cases like this.

@@gr8livn true

They did this to Central Park 5 AMERICA HATES BLACK N BROWN

Is that all you care about is what money he could have earned. He should have his financial life back ? What about the 20 years of his life he didn't see his kids grow up the family he hsd lost in that time and all that comes to mind is money!!

@@bxngworld8307 to be honest, that's the only thing he can get back, money.. The rest is completely done and gone. Might as well go for the money

The prosecution prosecute, the judge, judge; defence team have to defend their client to the best of their ability. What did defence do to help his client?? If prosecution has 2 witnesses to call, defence can call 3 or 4 of his 11 alibi witnesses, would have been sufficient. Make sure that defence witnesses are good witnesses. Defence need to cross-examine well the prosecution witnesses.

Prosecution are not in court to do defence job.

i think they should be forced to pay him half their salary for the 20 years he was falsely in prison ... each of them ... and the cops and detectives who didnt follow up with his alibi should all have their pay rate reduced back to starting levels ...for NOT doing their job ... make them climb back up the pay scale and hit them all in their wallets where they made moey while they screwed an innocent man over for most of his life.

Mistakes happen

@@slappyhappy6192 That is a man life and TWO families suffering from a mistake the justice system seem to be good at.

Including his "defense" attorney

Karen Waters Exactly. He could have asked for witnesses, found evidence to support the claim, such as CCTV, phone records, receipts, or any kind of paper trail. The defense attorney should be in prison.

Facts

You refer to it as a 'legal' system?

Billions of dollars. His life doesnt have a price on it

As an American Tax Payer, we owe this man a debt greater than we can afford. He paid a debt he didn’t owe to us, and 20 years of his life. 7200+ days he can never get back

@@kdcandy7876to

That’s legal 🥴

Justice For all you think that’s enough? No amount of money is enough for all that time. All the time away from your family, wife and kids, kids growing up and missing everything. No to mention the time in prison which isn’t a vacation destination to begin with. Add in all the stress of it all. $100 million isn’t enough for what this guy and his family went through

Justice For all He does, and more, that money will never replace that time lost

Justice For all 1 mill per year for the total of 20 years. 20 mill

per day!

He's not entitled to cash payment. He has his freedom. He is getting his life back. He is getting his story out. If you want to give him taxpayer money, you should discuss it with taxpayers. I vote no. Maybe you should set up a GoFund account for him.

His lawyer tried to call up those witnesses, the judge and police wouldn't allow or even look into it, they just lied and said he lied about being in Florida.

@@shanephelan75 that's despicable

If you ever gone through a jury trial its nothing but fair.. Its one sided and very hard to prove you didn't do something when you didn't do something.. Even with witnesses.. Think if you where accused of stealing a loaf of bread last tuesday at 6:25pm. Could you prove you didn't do it.. When there are two people saying you did do it...

Makes me wonder who was being protected by the judge and prosecutors.

I have an uncle that was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and thought he was helping a friend by giving him a ride after work. Little did he know that so-called friend got into a disagreement and shot somebody after getting the ride. Witnesses and the shooter himself testified in court my uncle had nothing to do with it. Despite that, he served 25 years in prison. 25 years, why? Because people want “justice”, even at the cost of another’s innocence.

Right and plea bargains count as a win seems like a convenient way to bully innocents into pleading guilty to avoid lengthy sentences

Funding for counties can also be tied to conviction rates

correct observation. see my OP.

Seth Class -!!!!!!!

and his defense team must have cared less

T mo public defenders?? get real!! there all on the same team!! called the bar association! public defenders get paid when you get convicted! Everybody that s apart of the case gets a peace of the pie!! Look up the bar association obligations! there first obligation is to bar paid lawyer or not!! learn the law before you talk!!

Seth Class It's just a game to the prosecution. Some people have been proven innocent through DNA evidence and they still try to keep the convicted locked up because they don't want to lose the game.

Sounds to me they know who did it but they needed someone else to take the blame. They chosing to not listening to witnesses showes that. They didn't want to search for thruth. The cops involved should be fired they aren't fit to serve

Joshua Baker well he wasnt a police yet at that time maybe its the reason why he chose to become a police to protect his owm family from them. At least when you are one of them they will have a second thought....

This is most vile conduct and will continue because those involved feel rewarded for doing the crap they do to innocent people.

It was a Mexican cop. Who in this white world is going to believe a f--/ng Mexican? Please tell me it’s not possible to be imprisoned for being ethnic. I’m 77 years old and I’ve seen this garbage happen all my life. And please don’t tell me if I don’t like it here, leave.

@@mistyrivers4995 - Please proofread your replies before posting, so that you don't come off sounding like an ignoramus. Thank you, that is all.

Well said and thank you for your sacrifice and service sir!!🇺🇲

I AGREE WITH YOU 100% THERE'S CROOK JUDGE'S IN THIS WORLD

see my OP

Well lets be real the witnesses were propably actually thinking they got the right guy. I mean eye witnesses are almost never completely right with their perception of an event. The only way eye witnesses work is if you have a dozen of them and all of them at least agree on something. The real problem here are the officials like the judge who convicted with way to little evidence.

True Blue

Yeah, we should release them all. That'll show 'em.

I have a friend like that been down since 94 still didn't get out for a crime he didn't commit

Let me guess, they’re all black?

Think about the ones that were wrongfully executed

Yeah, that'll teach em to never do that again... Can you sense the sarcasm?

Sovereign immunity.

Yolo Skater but it s their judge. Thst s the problem not a solution

He can’t sue because he asked the court to keep the case open he’s not totally innocent yet there for he cannot sue

islipin And further getting justice from the I justor is not likely. But maybe due in the International civil court

You skimmed the video. He is free but he did NOT want the case dismissed. He wants then to continue to try the case agsinst him to end up with a " Not Guilty" verdict.

THIS!

No system is perfect.

jerrywitaj Yeah ur right but don’t you think there should be some changes.

Tsds x2 Sans TS SunStone 777 I don’t know. You start messing with the system, then other things go wrong. I think it will always be imperfect. You just hope it doesn’t happen to anyone. But this case seems to clearly be corruption, or human error.

And at the opposite end of the spectrum, guilty people are getting away. Balance is restored.

That would encourage even more cover-ups, though I think that would make more sense

Tanner Vogan 13 witnesses, no judgement call needed

It's very naive of you to think that the system is actually looking to weed out the guilty from the innocent. The whole thing should be called an incarceration system because once you're in that courtroom the prosecution will send you to jail regardless if you're innocent or not. Prison industry is big $$$ so keeping them at full occupancy all the time is very profitable.

"once you're in that courtroom the prosecution will send you to jail regardless if you're innocent or not." oh so everyone ever is guilty nowadays... what are you 12? you have a very warped idea of how the world works. we dont live in nazi germany.

Dw2016 Dub yea right you must be a lieng pekerwood

Problem is, it won't and cannot

And needs to lock up killary and 95 percent of the demon rat party then execute them for treason

Not a mistake. They’re doing this ON PURPOSE

what’s the odds they will get it right 100% of the time

I wouldn’t call it a mistake, they deliberately ignored his alibi . They just wanted a conviction and he fit the mould

Arresting officer? Wrong try again. Defense attorney, Judge and such. Not arresting officer

Why the arresting officer? He was wrongly identified by so called witnesses. The arresting officer merely did his job. The judge then sentenced him.

eddie mendoza Officers have no hand in the prosecution and sentencing.

Supongo From the Kongo yes he does because the cop never contacted the convicted’s witnesses. He had an alibi that would have helped him from the beginning.

eddie mendoza I think kidnapping charge should be also added to that

This coming out of your pocket?

This coming out of the district attorneys office.

And about the time that he lost behind bars who's give back no one

@@onethree6002 well we kno ur bitchass is broke

@John Lutz whos funding the government

Suspected of being guilty, till proven innocent is more accurate.

What does Democracy have to do with it? Are you asking for Communism? Socialism? Marxism?

The problem is The United States was founded as a Republic. Yet some how, democrats have pushed democracy policies. Rome was a Republic, and when its senators started pushing to many democracy policies. Rome fell.......

Virtue!!! Virtue where are you??

Russian Troll alert!!

Any sum of money can't buy any time.

Exactly.. the 20 years he was behind bars can't make up for money, time is worth more then anything else as you can't get that time back..

Legit M8 but it can help

Bona 100 Mil

no it wouldnt

You clearly meant court system. It's ok, honest typo

I'm fairly sure they mean what they said... the police could have easily found out that the information he gave them was true all those years ago yet they very deliberately didn't so that they wouldn't have any contraindications of evidence to hand to the prosecution... they didn't do it for justice they did it to close a case and put a man behind bars regardless of what the truth might have been... they had no integrity... the prosecution doesn't communicate with the person charged with a crime they originally wouldn't have had any way of knowing that the cops were given alibi information yet didn't check it out at all... did they fail him all these years in appeal yes but it was also the prosecution that although they had no legal obligation to review the case did so anyway and got/allowed a new hearing even though he legally had none left.... they at least eventually did the right thing yet the police seem to continue a habit of this disgusting behavior.... do I think our court system is fair or perfect absolutely not and it also needs serious reform but the police are by far the worse offenders.... they mean exactly what they said

@@gdh8657 no typo just facts 👌

Thats not hard to find, most police are tyrants.

I have a pair of dirty socks that have more dignity.

100’s of millions? Gonna have a hard time finding precedent to justify that amount.

Stephen Murphy ehm everybody involved should be sentenced to life in prison without parole

a good lawyer will get him a settlement with the state

m c 3 million for 20 years is 150 grand a year. If living in prison was a job, no one would take it for $150K. 20 million minimum. It’s better than the government having our money anyway.

I agree to an extent, but 1st- No amount of money would be good enough. 2nd, if the state did have to pay, that would cause the judicial system to be very hesitant to "take another look" at a case. There's only so much money available after all. Not to mention that alot of government things are hurting for money. A person's freedom is the most important.

Don't forget OJ.

@@plutoplatters OJ was well off and a celebrity, if he had been poor he would have been found guilty

True

Judge has nothing to do with the charges. The judge is there to ensure he gets a fair trial with evidence PRESENTED. The defense attorney should be the one under the spot light if there was indeed testimony and evidence that would have cleared him.

@@tmilesffl All appear responsible, some more than others. Attempt to eliminate incompetence by adding real consequences and repercussions and you instill true justice.

@@tmilesffl The judge has the power to dismiss the case or recuse their position in the face of corruption... Judge should’ve been paying attention. Now the man lost 20 years he will never get back. The law has done this before. Rapists and murderers shouldn’t be allowed to continue their reign of terror while innocent ppl sit in prison for their crime and the people responsible close their eyes soundly at night. Sickening...

@@tmilesffl I have not heard the judge's summing up (USA?). If the summing up is a fair one, then the judge's has nothing to do with the case. The prosecution's case is there. But what did the defence team do?? Why wasn't there more of a fight from them. Why did defence team not ask for further investigation. I can always tell if prosecution has a fight in a case, when there are enquiries from defence every other day. I f defence wants answers, prosecution duty to ask police to investigate further. If not we cannot tell the police how to do their jobs.

@Thunder Bird the charges are drawn up by prosecution UK.

Biggwill NYC - Exactly!!!.

cunard61 Disagree, then would not be confident enough to try to convict when lack of evidence to support conviction of a criminal. This looks like lack of defense lawyers. How can no eyewitness be contacted to speak for n his behalf? Failed defence, not just system. Penalties fron his defence, don't punish system, punish those willfully not doing their job.

I really Don't care- The NYPD was made aware of the more than one dozen people in Florida who could verify that this man was indeed in Florida when the murder occurred. The police had the duty to interview all of those witnesses, long before they ever charged this man with a crime. His case should never have even reached the point of an arrest, and the case wouldn't have reached that point if the police had properly done their job. When a detectives' or prosecutors' actions or failed inactions, impact a persons life to this degree, then there needs to be consequences for those people of a criminal nature. This man lost 20 years of his life, he was essentially kidnapped, and held for 20 years. Those responsible for making that happen, without first verifying his alibi, need to pay for what they did.

You would think this man would understand the system by now. He should not request a retrial. Anytime one enters the legal societies arena, it's their world, their rules, that can change at anytime, plus corrupt. This is a common law land. He needs to take the dismissal, which is different than discharge and use that as evidence in a new case that HE brings upon the wrongdoers who wantonly did not follow their own rules. When you make a request, you are begging, one must require. You wish order and require as your right. "They" with their titles have duties obligations and responsibilities. When you plea you have entered their world and you are begging mommy or daddy to take care of your affairs. The BAR society has hijacked our court system. Know your status as wo/man and stand on it.

cunard61 i agree

cunard61 I agree with you. They had plenty of evidence that they needed to be looking elsewhere. And it shouldn't be on the defendent to fly people in to provide an alibi in court.

Probably couldn't afford a lawyer and got stuck with an overworked and under-resourced public defender...

You know whether they were contacted by law enforcement or not, it these were my friends and knew I was being tried for something I positively did NOT do... Why not come forward of your own volition?! Oh, my goodness! This innocent man NOT traumatized by 20yrs of his life wrongfully stolen by our corrupt justice system. Wow 😳😲🙄 Father heal the brokenness bind up his wounds from the injustices of society and heartless individuals, 🛐💔💝Beauty for ashes and the oil of joy for a heavy spirit, I pray.

Public defenders are garbage unless your paying for a real lawer. Public defenders are against you to.

This is how so many people of color are kidnapped for a big part of their lives if not all it’s all about racism and money

THAT is the question!

While the ACTUAL killer was never caught...

cool bird you don't know how it feels. Are you white? Just asking

"It's not natural'

Im a victim of that..

@@amandaSVida2 me too.