Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two years

Re:Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two ... by hilbert42 on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:07PM (#28079851)

"Right, it's outrageously absurd Moriarty asked, "How old was your daughter when you came in here?"
"Seven weeks old," he replied.
"So, you've missed watching her grow up?"
"Every bit of it."
"How old is she now?"
"She just turned 43."

But an apology, even from the prosecutor, is all he gets, Strickland is still in prison."

This is fucking terrible. It brought tears to my eyes as it's both horrific and so tragic. It's no wonder that much of the world looks on American Justice with much askance and suspicion in that its implementation of 'justice' is so hypocritically at odds with stated American values—and even the Constitution. One wonders why so many American citizens actually tolerate this situation and do so little about it.

For heaven's sake why aren't people on the streets protesting for change?

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Re:Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two ... by thesagan on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:47PM (#28080388)

There’s so much to protest and so many are crushed that many Americans have resigned hope for change.

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Re:Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two ... by gentleman11 on Friday August 06, 2021 @01:52AM (#28083764)

They don’t protest it because a few years later something worse was going on, and a few years later something even worse, and so on. Nothing gets fixed, it just gets concealed behind some new scandal that people worry even more about. That’s why national unity and trust in institutions is almost at rock bottom, and why groups are starting to riot more often or resort to mob justice on social media

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Re:Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two ... by hilbert42 on Thursday August 05, 2021 @06:46PM (#28081045)

So what do citizens do short of a revolution (no sensible person ever wants that)?

I wonder if returning soldiers from D-Day and Iwo Jima would have allowed themselves to be crushed in similar circumstances. I doubt it very much.

(Seems to me both the zeitgeist and ethics have changed greatly in the past 75 years. The question is why.)

BTW, I note this story is now here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28079154

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Re:Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two ... by spicymaki on Thursday August 05, 2021 @10:00PM (#28082462)

How could the governor sleep at night with verifiably innocent people rotting in jail?

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Re:Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two ... by Zuider on Friday August 06, 2021 @09:22AM (#28086791)

Doesn't the governor of a state have the power to grant pardons?

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Re:Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two ... by spicymaki on Friday August 06, 2021 @10:23AM (#28087512)

Yes, he does, and he has not acted on it.

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