So they're concerned that he's just an excitable boy?

Yes, because that extra day will most assuredly make the difference between a safe return to society and a homicidal freak out.

Dear fellas,

I can't believe how fast things move on the outside. I saw an automobile once when I was a kid, but now they're everywhere. The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry. The parole board got me into this halfway house called "The Brewer" and a job bagging groceries at the Foodway. It's hard work and I try to keep up, but my hands hurt most of the time. I don't think the store manager likes me very much. Sometimes after work, I go to the park and feed the birds. I keep thinking Jake might just show up and say hello, but he never does. I hope wherever he is, he's doin' okay and makin' new friends. I have trouble sleepin' at night. I have bad dreams like I'm falling. I wake up scared. Sometimes it takes me a while to remember where I am. Maybe I should get me a gun and rob the Foodway so they'd send me home. I could shoot the manager while I was at it, sort of like a bonus. I guess I'm too old for that sort of nonsense any more. I don't like it here. I'm tired of being afraid all the time. I've decided not to stay. I doubt they'll kick up any fuss. Not for an old crook like me.

Brooks

Yes. It is inappropriate to get upset when you've spent 27 years in jail for not doing a crime.

Does he get a free pass to kidnap and rape the chick like in that "Double Jeopardy" movie? I mean, I could hardly blame him.

Hey there. How've you been doing? So...umm...promise you're not going to be mad, but you've been found innocent. Whoa! Whoa! Settle down there! Look I'm sorry it's been 27 years. Yes, I realize that's most of your life, but there have been some great advances in medicine. Nowadays that's like just over a quarter of your lifespan...tops.

Ok, will you calm down for a minute there? Come on I just can't...look pal, I said I'm sorry, what more do you want me to do?

Ok, you know what? You can just sit in that cell until you can calm down and learn to let other people talk. And you can forget about the cookies I brought.

namatad: Because the statute of limitations has run out, no one will ever charged or prosecuted for the crime.

why is there a statute of limitation on sexual assualt and kidnapping??

There's a SOL on everything except murder in virtually every jurisdiction. To understand this, you need to study the history of common law, especially the ideas regarding punishment being proximite to the time the crime was committed.

He should be allowed to commit pretty much any crime he wants since he has 27 years of time served.

ultraholland: Dear fellas,

I can't believe how fast things move on the outside. I saw an automobile once when I was a kid, but now they're everywhere. The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry. The parole board got me into this halfway house called "The Brewer" and a job bagging groceries at the Foodway. It's hard work and I try to keep up, but my hands hurt most of the time. I don't think the store manager likes me very much. Sometimes after work, I go to the park and feed the birds. I keep thinking Jake might just show up and say hello, but he never does. I hope wherever he is, he's doin' okay and makin' new friends. I have trouble sleepin' at night. I have bad dreams like I'm falling. I wake up scared. Sometimes it takes me a while to remember where I am. Maybe I should get me a gun and rob the Foodway so they'd send me home. I could shoot the manager while I was at it, sort of like a bonus. I guess I'm too old for that sort of nonsense any more. I don't like it here. I'm tired of being afraid all the time. I've decided not to stay. I doubt they'll kick up any fuss. Not for an old crook like me.

Brooks

Mr. Green will be happy to be walking miles after his release.

27 years and it was the wrong guy. But let's keep executing people and sending them up for life-without-parole as often as makes us feel good. That way, when we DO get it right things will work out better.

Danger Mouse: So they're concerned that he's just an excitable boy?

Good song.

Danger Mouse: So they're concerned that he's just an excitable boy?

They'll be sorry when he digs up the grave and builds a cage with her bones. Assuming that the woman is dead, of course.

I'm surprised that haven't already executed him.

This guy's life is just over. He's spent more than half his life in prison, and went in at a young age. There's absolutely no way he'll be able to function on the outside.

The sad thing is he's almost certain to actually commit a crime now just to go back.

wegro: He should be allowed to commit pretty much any crime he wants since he has 27 years of time served.

So since he already served time for a crime he didn't commit, does Double Jeapordy come into play?

Texas justice at work.

Meh, he'll get over it.

He should be awarded millions of dollars. Thanks to overzealous prosecution, he lost the best years of his life. He should never have to want for anything for the rest of his days.

Man, I need to GTFO out Texas.

Aeonic_Blue: This guy's life is just over. He's spent more than half his life in prison, and went in at a young age. There's absolutely no way he'll be able to function on the outside.

The sad thing is he's almost certain to actually commit a crime now just to go back.

Hopefully he finds the prosecutor and rapes him.

AbbeySomeone: ultraholland: Dear fellas,

I can't believe how fast things move on the outside. I saw an automobile once when I was a kid, but now they're everywhere. The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry. The parole board got me into this halfway house called "The Brewer" and a job bagging groceries at the Foodway. It's hard work and I try to keep up, but my hands hurt most of the time. I don't think the store manager likes me very much. Sometimes after work, I go to the park and feed the birds. I keep thinking Jake might just show up and say hello, but he never does. I hope wherever he is, he's doin' okay and makin' new friends. I have trouble sleepin' at night. I have bad dreams like I'm falling. I wake up scared. Sometimes it takes me a while to remember where I am. Maybe I should get me a gun and rob the Foodway so they'd send me home. I could shoot the manager while I was at it, sort of like a bonus. I guess I'm too old for that sort of nonsense any more. I don't like it here. I'm tired of being afraid all the time. I've decided not to stay. I doubt they'll kick up any fuss. Not for an old crook like me.

Brooks

Mr. Green will be happy to be walking miles after his release.

I thought that was Red.

/Red Green, maybe?

Wow, what kind of dick judge pulls something like that? Some one should find out who this judge is and plaster his face on the news as the countrys biggest douche bag.

Trance750: wegro: He should be allowed to commit pretty much any crime he wants since he has 27 years of time served.

So since he already served time for a crime he didn't commit, does Double Jeapordy come into play?

Let's get this straight.

Double jeopardy means you can't be tried for the same crime twice.

This works with murder, because it is impossible to murder the same person twice.

However, it is possible to rob or assault the same person twice, so they would be two different crimes. No double jeopardy.

However, I think there may be an old prosecution team somewhere who, if they turned up badly beaten, a jury just might downplay in this case. Can you say mitigating circumstances?

If I were him, the first thing I would do would be to try to hunt down and kill the jurors who convicted me--or the attorney who inadequately defended me, whichever I deemed most responsible.

jehovahs witness protection: His lawsuit will begin in 3...2...1...

As it should.

HotWingConspiracy: Hopefully he finds the prosecutor and rapes him.

Unless the victim identified him as the rapist, in which case he gets to rape him/her.

Also, the State should be responsible for providing him all the things he would have provided himself with by this point in life if he were allowed to be a productive citizen.

No mortgage, too.

Holy cow. I just realised this guy is pretty much my age. Now trying to imagine how different two lives can be.

Poor guy.

ShillinTheVillain: He should be awarded millions of dollars. Thanks to overzealous prosecution, he lost the best years of his life. He should never have to want for anything for the rest of his days.

This.
I mean they don't have to pamper him with yachts and stuff, just set him up in a nice middle class neighborhood, make sure he always has enough to pay the bills and have some extra spending money for things.
Not only is it fair to give him the life he could have had if he wasn't wrongly convicted, it would force the justice system to be a bit more careful with sentencing, or they'll be shelling out a lot of cash to innocents.

Trance750: wegro: He should be allowed to commit pretty much any crime he wants since he has 27 years of time served.

So since he already served time for a crime he didn't commit, does Double Jeapordy come into play?


Double Jeopardy doesn't work that way
It prevents a person from being tried twice for the same crime on the same set of facts. No he would not be able to go out and kidnap and assault the victim or commit any other crime and 'get away with it'.

/feel bad for the guy
//I'd look for a good or bad lawyer to sue for false imprisonment for the extra day.

ShillinTheVillain: He should be awarded millions of dollars. Thanks to overzealous prosecution, he lost the best years of his life. He should never have to want for anything for the rest of his days.

and it still won't be enough.

Texas has had enough of these wrongful convictions overturned, it's time to do more than just let them go. Time to start punishing the overzealous, corrupt, or incompetent officials who imprisoned them for being convenient scapegoats.

If it were me after being in jail from age 18... I'd either kill myself or go on a serious revenge spree. Nothing can make up for what was done to him, nothing.

Juniper Jupiter: AbbeySomeone: ultraholland: Dear fellas,

I can't believe how fast things move on the outside. I saw an automobile once when I was a kid, but now they're everywhere. The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry. The parole board got me into this halfway house called "The Brewer" and a job bagging groceries at the Foodway. It's hard work and I try to keep up, but my hands hurt most of the time. I don't think the store manager likes me very much. Sometimes after work, I go to the park and feed the birds. I keep thinking Jake might just show up and say hello, but he never does. I hope wherever he is, he's doin' okay and makin' new friends. I have trouble sleepin' at night. I have bad dreams like I'm falling. I wake up scared. Sometimes it takes me a while to remember where I am. Maybe I should get me a gun and rob the Foodway so they'd send me home. I could shoot the manager while I was at it, sort of like a bonus. I guess I'm too old for that sort of nonsense any more. I don't like it here. I'm tired of being afraid all the time. I've decided not to stay. I doubt they'll kick up any fuss. Not for an old crook like me.

Brooks

Mr. Green will be happy to be walking miles after his release.

I thought that was Red.

/Red Green, maybe?

Why do they call him Red any way?

Tony Van Morrison: There's a SOL on everything except murder in virtually every jurisdiction. To understand this, you need to study the history of common law, especially the ideas regarding punishment being proximite to the time the crime was committed.

I would also say on a more practical level it's to help prevent wrongful incrimination as people's memories go fuzzy.

/Is that an example or irony?
//I'm not British.

Le Chic.

He could easily start a professional career in the Gay Pron Industry. He's probably been doing amateur stuff for 27 years now.

Of course who needs to work when you're about to get rich.

FTA:"The irony is that Green would have been up for parole in October."
no. no it isn't. that's like rai-e-ain on your wedding day. with so many unemployed lit majors out there why is an editor allowing that drivel?

/double jeopardy loop whole wtw
//maybe she kinda owes him one...

Is it unsettling to anyone else how many old convictions are being overturned these days as a result of DNA evidence and such?

I mean it's all but certain at this point that we, as a society, have murdered several completely innocent people via the death penalty...

Does that disturb everyone as much as it does me?

Juniper Jupiter: I thought that was Red.

/Red Green, maybe?

Quando omni flunkus moritati.

Feepit: Also, the State should be responsible for providing him all the things he would have provided himself with by this point in life if he were allowed to be a productive citizen

Yeah. The bare minimum is to set him up in a 4 bedroom house in any area of his choosing, and a monthly, tax free stipend of no less than $15,000. For life.

On the bright side, at least he gets to spend one last night with his prison daddy

FarkedOver: Juniper Jupiter: AbbeySomeone: ultraholland: Dear fellas,

I can't believe how fast things move on the outside. I saw an automobile once when I was a kid, but now they're everywhere. The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry. The parole board got me into this halfway house called "The Brewer" and a job bagging groceries at the Foodway. It's hard work and I try to keep up, but my hands hurt most of the time. I don't think the store manager likes me very much. Sometimes after work, I go to the park and feed the birds. I keep thinking Jake might just show up and say hello, but he never does. I hope wherever he is, he's doin' okay and makin' new friends. I have trouble sleepin' at night. I have bad dreams like I'm falling. I wake up scared. Sometimes it takes me a while to remember where I am. Maybe I should get me a gun and rob the Foodway so they'd send me home. I could shoot the manager while I was at it, sort of like a bonus. I guess I'm too old for that sort of nonsense any more. I don't like it here. I'm tired of being afraid all the time. I've decided not to stay. I doubt they'll kick up any fuss. Not for an old crook like me.

Brooks

Mr. Green will be happy to be walking miles after his release.

I thought that was Red.

/Red Green, maybe?

Why do they call him Red any way?

Maybe because he's Irish?

sandmanahoy: jehovahs witness protection: His lawsuit will begin in 3...2...1...

As it should.

It'll be interesting to see how much he gets. What do you suppose a fair settlement would be? I would say one million for the first year, a million times the number of years he's spend in there for each of the following years (so he'd get one million for the first year, two million for the second year, three million for the third, etc.) But that's just off the top of my head without thinking too deeply about it.

Maybe what we need is a law that makes the prosecution, jury, and defense attorneys (if found to have provided an inadequate defense) financially responsible for taking care of the innocent party who was wrongly convicted.

That would make people think twice.

Maybe even make the prosecution legally adopt him. ;o