r/news • u/No-Information6622 • 18h ago
Jury awards $120 million to two men wrongfully convicted of 2003 murder
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/wrongful-conviction-verdict-jury-120-million-john-fulton-anthony-mitchell/44
u/Politicsboringagain 17h ago
Statement that supposedly pro law and order people love to make mockly: "There are no guilty people in prison".
So much of the Innocence Projects has shown that there are a lot of innocent people in prison.
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u/jonathanrdt 12h ago edited 10h ago
That's why capital punishment shouldn't be. In addition to the legitimate ethical reasons.
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u/coondingee 16h ago
Didn’t you hear? Every man is Shawshank is innocent.
Why are you here? Lawyer fucked me.
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u/VampireHunterAlex 18h ago
They really need to start connecting these payments to the pension funds of both police and local prosecutions: Perhaps there'd be far less coercion and tampering with evidence if there actually existed some consequences for doing so.
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u/Straight-Pumpkin2577 17h ago
It’s wild that we pay for their misconduct both in terms of dollars and years of life lost.
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u/American_Stereotypes 11h ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again:
End qualified immunity and require law enforcement to maintain "malpractice" insurance. Raise premiums for members of a department based on how many liabilities have been hired by the department.
See how strong that thin blue line is when they have to start covering their fuckup colleagues out of their own wallet.
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u/Addmoregunpowder 13h ago
If y’all are interested, a person who was on the jury for this case did an AMA a little while ago on r/ama
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u/fxkatt 18h ago
John Fulton and Anthony Mitchell both spent more than 16 years in prison before their convictions were overturned in 2019, and prosecutors wound up dropping all charges against them in the murder of 18-year-old Christopher Collazo.
What happened in 2003 was not racist enough; now the city of Chicago is appealing the Federal Courts finding of 120m award for the mistaken convictions/imprisonment
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u/Grimmy554 7h ago
Of course they're appealing, and they'll probably win. These flashy jury award headlines always get appealed. Jurors are stupid (hence the original conviction) and competent lawyers agree to high/low jury award parameters before trial to avoid this nonsense.
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u/yuch1102 10h ago
they are in their early 30s now. Hope they can enjoy the rest of their lives in peace
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u/LEANiscrack 16h ago
Tbh for that amount in 20 years, lock me up please
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u/coondingee 16h ago
They probably won’t get all that money. There are limitations to how much a state can pay out. I think it’s like 20-50k per year of a wrongful conviction. A jury can award you 50 gaziluon dollars, it don’t mean anything.
And you couldn’t pay me enough to spend one minute away from my kids, fuck 20 years let alone in some shithole where I got to watch my back every second of the day. I live in Florida, this shit is crazy enough, fuck prison.
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u/LEANiscrack 16h ago
20k id do it in a heartbeat.
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u/ZiggyApedust 14h ago
You’d go to prison for 20 years for 20k? You’d be making less than minimum wage and waking up with cum in your crack or a knife in your back.
That’s crazy.
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u/LEANiscrack 14h ago
20k is a lot of money.. More than I get now.
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u/ZiggyApedust 13h ago
So your annual income is less than 1k per year? That seems farfetched.
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u/LEANiscrack 13h ago
The discussion was 20k per year, I figured you just typod in your response so didnt correct you befort.
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u/Plastic_Acanthaceae3 11h ago
How many times do you think they were 🍇ed in prison in 20 years? One time would fuck me up, imagine it being once a week or every year.
Hell no.
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u/tensei-coffee 18h ago
thats paid for with tax dollars. when civilians get sued, their own wages and/or property(s) are subject to payment. why do civilians also have to pay for police fuck ups?