New York inmate's golf drawings lead to exoneration in murder

Re:New York inmate's golf drawings lead to exoneration in mu... by tyrust on Thursday September 20, 2018 @02:06PM (#18034381)

>it's not clear to me that Dixon was really a victim in all this

And that's where I think the perspective is messed up. Sentencing guidelines are codified in law. This man received and served a non-trivial portion of a sentence that he did not deserve. In my opinion, there is no ambiguity here: he is a victim of a failure of the legal system. As a victim his damages amount to at least 12 years of his life.

Note that this makes him less of a criminal for the crimes he did commit.

Not really relevant to our conversation, but where did you get this "body guard" quote?

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Re:New York inmate's golf drawings lead to exoneration in mu... by mcguire on Thursday September 20, 2018 @03:09PM (#18034774)

""Mr. Dixon is not an innocent man. Don't be misguided in that at all,'' Erie County District Attorney John Flynn told reporters after the hearing. He described Dixon as "an up-and-coming drug dealer in the city of Buffalo'' at the time of the shooting and said Scott was Dixon's bodyguard."

From the ESPN link.

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