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I'm hoping he'll sue for as much as he can possibly get, but it is outrageous that he'll have to sue to get any monetary reparations for his wrongful imprisonment for life, I'm mean let's be honest here, it was his life, they took it away from him.

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His Get For More is doing well.

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I'm sorry you are having to go through this. I'm sure not releasing evidence is par for the course but it should be illegal. Hoping you get your case dismissed soon.

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It’s the exact opposite of ‘justice’ and it wasn’t done by mistake. That’s at least got to count as something. The system might make mistakes, and those victims should also be compensated, but when it does that injustice intentionally, that needs to be repaired as much as it can be. Otherwise there’s no way to call it a system of justice, and nobody should pretend otherwise, even if it works out some of the time.

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Right? The thing is, if you railroad innocent people, you aren't actually tough on crime, you are performatively tough on crime. And like being performatively tough on disease while promoting the wrong treatment, it is in some ways worse than doing nothing because it fosters a false hope of security while the real cause goes unchecked.

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I feel like instead of "one person, one vote" on a per-comment basis, we should get a daily allotment so that if we wanted to, we could give them all to a single comment.

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>Strickland has said he does not intend to live in Missouri, which will not compensate him for his 42 years in its prisons because of its narrow compensation law. He has never seen the ocean and wants to go somewhere warm with a coastline. Maybe California or Florida, he has imagined, away from the cold. “I want to feel the power of the ocean,” Strickland has said. “Yeah, I want to do that.”<

Even poor old Mississippi and Alabama have wrongful conviction compensation laws. I wish Mr. Strickland blessings from here on out. A lot of people are upset over his life being stolen and a fundraiser for him is almost up to $400K. I think he's going to be okay. If I had property near a coast I'd let him live in it.

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Arbery: GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY, MOST GUILTIES!

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Verdicts returned.

https://www.chicagotribune....

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Related: Arbery killers guilty. https://www.washingtonpost....

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Sounds like a real polite society there.

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GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

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oh, pshaw.

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scroll down for the maps. https://www.washingtonpost....

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She moved to free him as soon as elected.

I believe your scorn would be better placed on the previous prosecutor.

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