Norman Wolfinger says that the state legislature should concider that Dillon hasn't proven his innocence. In the USA...it's innocent until proven guilty. End of story.
So what's new? Police are the only folks I know who have forever considered faking the evidence and lying as just another paragraph in their job description. "Integrity" has never been cops nor prosecutors strong point. Add the now and then bit of thuggery and you have a fair picture of 'em.
This guy should get compensated. Prior felony or no they stole, as in they robbed him of 27 years of his freedom & life.
I did 15 years but was surenuf guilty, did a year or so w/Jack Kevorkian and was visited by Michael Moore (back in the 90's) and I being an inmate representative came in cntact w/many inmates who shouldn't have been incarcerated (btw, I broke into a drug store cause that's where the drugs were!) Anyhoo, the dude should be paid BIGTIME!
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This man makes a great point. If prosecutors and police officers were held accountable personally like those charged, we would see a whole lot less wrongfully charged and convicted. Make the prosecutors and the cops pay!!!
I agree, they should consider some sort of action against the "individuals" involved, it isn't right that our justice system doesn't expose those that doggedly pursue cases just based on their own agenda. (and that really is all it is). Most people may disagree with me but in my opinion, until you have a brush with the legal system in our country, you don't realize that detectives, DA's, public defenders (which most criminals invariably wind up with), are NOT about justice - they're about moving their own careers ahead (i.e., winning the easy battles so they look good and can advance). This usually means going after the less educated or people with little means to hire good/reputable defense attorneys who will put up a good fight.
Right is right and wrong is wrong. Pay the man. They owe him more than the state is worth for stealing his life.
Well Mr. Wolfinger, your innocence in the murder isn't proven either. YOU DAFFY BAS*TARD! In case you were absent that day in law school, the presumption of innocence is a right enjoyed by Americans and is only removed after guilt is proven beyond a reasonable doubt. I think you need to go back to school you moron. Prior felony or not, you people sent this man to prison for 27 years and he hadn't committed the crime you said he did. You need to pay him, AND make a public apology. Damn lawyers! The world doesn't revolve around your corrupt as*ses!
It's just like Ben Franklin said while setting up the US government, "First thing, let's kill all the lawyers." They knew then that lawers could FU a wet dream. We need to quit electing attorneys into congress.
I agree with Maverick13:
Give the man his money. Take it out of the detectives' and the D.A.'s retirement.
Absolutely Bill, get every dime they owe you. $50,000 a year is cheap. Hopefully we can buy your forgiveness a little. I understand your anger, I really do. Try to forgive the people involved, I know it will be difficult. Try to put yourself in their shoes. Families to support, careers to build, public to defend and protect. Surely the God who was with you through it all, will help you resolve all this peacefully, without doing more damage to innocent people. Good luck!
They ruined his life and $50,000.00 a year won't bring those years back
They need to give him MILLIONS!!. Thank God he wasn't put to death!!!!!
"Norman Wolfinger, the state attorney in Brevard County, said in a letter to the Legislature that while there isn't enough evidence to convict Dillon again, lawmakers should consider that his innocence isn't proven, either."
Um, excuse me?! Wolfinger needs to go back to law school. He's got the system backwards.
According to the article the police coerced and purloined Perjury. Think anybody is going to be investigated or prosecuted? Ha!
I don't know about Bill,but what the state of Florida put me through for 1 year,no ammount of money could make me ever forgive,and I will never forget the cops,states attorneys,and the judge who did that to me,especially the pretending defender who was appointed by the court,she did everything the states attorney instructed her to do.
People like that need to be aware of karma,and the boogy man.
And this is why you can't have the death penalty. 27 years later and it turns out they got the wrong guy.
He is certainly fortunate he does not live in Texas. Our Governor, Rick Perry, would still proclaim he is guilty, put a needle in his arm, and then disband the government inquiry group that proved his innocence. And the truly sad thing is that Texans are actually considering letting this a****** be Governor again.
This is why the death penalty should be tossed. Anyone remember how, just a few short years ago, the ultra-conservative republican governor of Illinois, George Ryan, commuted every prisoner on death row in 2000? 13 death row inmates were released. It was discovered that several had been convicted after the police, in cooperation with the DAs office, railroaded them on false evidence. I know that some people are obiously guilty, but how about the ones who aren't guilty who get executed anyway. Texas is so worried about it that they want to destroy all DNA evidence immediately after the conviction. They don't want it coming back to bite them on the tookus after some poor sap is executed wrongly.
If you have someone who is willing to put people to death to gain political advantage...well, there are no words. The fact is, lawyers...DAs, ADAs, etc, are THEE biggest argument against the death penalty. So for all of their "tough on crime" bullsh_t, they are the very reason that people of consience cannot fully ratify putting people to death. When it's for gain...it's automatically gonna be poorly done. Or...done to the poor. How f_cked up is that?
What does a prior conviction have to do with this case? If he had a prior, he served his time. Done.
Because you have a speeding ticket, means you can be given as many as the law wants and no matter what you were speeding and are guilty. NOT!
As someone said earlier, take it from the pention money of anyone involved in this case.
I agree - PAY THE MAN!! Everyday it's proven that more and more there is a corrupt system in place within the justice departments. Sheriff Joe in AZ and the GLENDALE police department as well...are crooked and corrupt. They railroaded someone very close to me. They planted evidence and lied lied lied....
According to the story he was exonerated by DNA - a science which they did not have 27 years ago. I didn't see anything in the story that stated the police or DA planted evidence? Mr Dillon should be compensated, but have police and the DA pay for this out of their salaries doesn't make sense.
They stole 27 years of this mans life. He needs to be compensated.
Just take it out of the POLICE PENTION FUND!
well vp joey maybe we should put u in prison so buba can show u a good time --- PAY THE MAN ---
Nope-he should just say "thank for the room and board at tax-payers expense" they should give the man a bus ticket home and the clothes he walked in there with- end of story. He got to hang with the same sort of folks he'd been hanging with on the outside plus he got free food and rent. What's the big deal-freedom is not that great! I've been in and I've been free-only difference is time is so fast on the outside kind of always rush-rush rush!
Pay the man - triple!
And, as a bonus, garnish the wages of those who railroaded him to get a conviction-regardless-of-what-it takes. Perhaps criminal changes as well. That is so others like them will have some SERIOUS consequences to think about!
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