Let's do a brief "There’s a very simple way to avoid incarceration: don’t commit a crime." thread while I wait for my client's case to be called
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Yes! The true conservative solution is to spend obscene sums of other people's money to arrest, prosecute, and incarcerate people who aren't a threat to the communityhttps://twitter.com/Archimusik/status/1026480967593152513 …
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Just last week, a police officer in Biscayne Park FL pled guilty to framing two innocent black men so the town could meet statistical goals The men didn't commit a crime, but went to jail anywayhttps://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article215589545.html …
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The Biscayne Park FL police Chief is under federal indictment for pinning for burglaries on an innocent black teenhttps://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article212948924.html …
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Not to be outdone, two different Florida officers were indicted the same week in other Florida counties One framed an innocent person. The other faked a crime scene.http://www.jacksonville.com/news/20180629/two-northeast-florida-cops-are-accused-of-lying-and-one-may-have-locked-up-innocent-people …
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The town of Doraville GA is currently being sued after officials gloated about fining and/or arresting innocent taxpayers to balance the town's budgethttps://reason.com/blog/2018/05/24/georgia-town-brags-about-fining-resident …
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Corey Williams spent over 20 years in a Louisiana prison for murder Turns out he didn't do it and was exonerated back in Mayhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/05/22/he-was-16-when-louisiana-charged-him-with-murder-two-decades-later-hes-free/ …
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Emory Ellis went to jail in Massachusetts for the heinous crime of buying a meal in cash His $10 bill was real, but he was charged with using a counterfeit bill anyway because why not?https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2018/05/homeless-man-jailed-after-being-falsely-accused-of-using-counterfeit-cash-is-suing-burger-king/ …
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Dontia Patterson spent 11 years in a Pennsylvania prison for murder Turns out he didn't do it, and he was exonerated around the same time as Corey Williamshttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/us/dontia-patterson-philadelphia.html …
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Richard Beranek did 27 years in a Wisconsin prison for rape Turns out he didn't do it, so he was exoneratedhttps://www.wisconsinwatch.org/2018/05/wisconsin-man-casualty-of-flawed-hair-forensics-latest-to-be-exonerated/ …
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(Those last 4 tweets are from just one single episode of
@fsckemall btw)https://www.fsckemall.com/2018/05/exonerations-everywhere-episode-66/ …Show this thread -
Lawrence McKinney did 31 years for crimes he didn't commit. Tennessee taxpayers will be shelling out $1,000,000.00 in compensation to him now that's he's been exoneratedhttps://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/wilson/2018/03/21/wrongly-convicted-wilson-county-man-awarded-1-million/439052002/ …
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Should we talk about Chicago PD officer Reynaldo Guevara? Because he framed a lot of innocent black folks These two were framed for example https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/judge-tosses-confessions-says-detective-guevara-lied-under-oath/ …
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This one's getting $17,000,000.00 from taxpayers after he was framedhttps://chicago.suntimes.com/news/jury-gives-17m-to-man-falsely-imprisoned-for-murder-in-case-tied-to-tainted-cop/ …
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Guevara framed so many innocent people a judge had to do a mass exoneration for efficiencyhttps://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/16/564706809/chicago-judge-throws-out-15-convictions-on-fears-police-reports-were-dishonest …
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Thomas Sierra? Served 22 years for a murder he didn't commithttp://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-murder-conviction-tossed-detective-guevara-20180109-story.html …
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Jaime Hauad? Served 21 years for a murder he didn't commithttp://wgntv.com/2018/01/18/citing-police-torture-judge-orders-convicted-murderer-freed/amp/ …
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Demetrius Smith? Served 5 years for a murder he didn't commithttps://www.propublica.org/article/baltimore-judge-tosses-alford-plea-demetrius-smith …
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Framing innocent people was a forte of Maryland's Gun Trace Task Force I'd link you a story directly, but turns out they're already part of an thread on police lying on official reports, in court, etchttps://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1010343580328656897 …
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It's not just on the East Coast though. California's Craig Coley spent 39 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit http://beta.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-simi-pardon-evidence-20171124-story.html …
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Lamonte McIntyre did 23 years in Kansas for a double murder Turns out he didn't do it and has been exoneratedhttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/20/us/innocent-murder-exoneration.html …
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Davontae Sanford? 9 years for a murder he didn't commithttps://www.wxyz.com/news/region/detroit/wrongfully-convicted-man-brings-civil-complaint-against-detroit-and-cops …
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Lamar Johnson? 13 years for a murder he didn't commithttp://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-johnson-exonerated-20170919-story.html …
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Eric Kelley and Ralph Lee in New Jersey? Exonerated after years in prison for murder they didn't commithttps://www.innocenceproject.org/new-jersey-court-vacates-1996-murder-convictions-based-dna-identifying-another-suspect/ …
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Desmond Ricks spent 25 years in prison for murder Turns out he didn't do it and has been exoneratedhttp://www.cbsnews.com/news/desmond-ricks-murder-charges-dropped-after-25-years-in-prison/ …
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Wilbert Jones spent *46* years in prison for a rape he didn't commithttps://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/934863890374160384 …
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And if you're one of those incompetent f*cks who reply with "these are just anecdotes!," a study just came out in June confirming innocent people routinely plead guiltyhttps://law.cu-portland.edu/news/forcing-innocent-plead-guilty …
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Which meshes with a separate study in March that teens routinely plead guilty to crimes they didn't commithttps://m.phys.org/news/2018-03-teenagers-guilty-crimes-didnt-commit.html …
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Which meshes with another study covered in the Wall Street Journal that innocent people routinely plead guilty to crimes they didn't commithttps://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390443589304577637631959766816 …
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This notion that you'll avoid going to jail because you didn't commit a crime is wildly ahistorical and, frankly, stupid
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And those are just some of the serious crimes and academic studies We didn't even talk about Florida police deliberately targeting minorities for "pedestrian offenses" that weren't actually illegalhttps://projects.propublica.org/graphics/jacksonville …
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