A man who was wrongly convicted of a sexual assault crime and spent seven years as a registered sex offender, after being released from prison, was recently proved innocent.
The innocent victim is now filing a suit against the city for the ten years he wrongly spent behind bars.
Guy Randolph, 50, was convicted of indecently assaulting a little girl and battery in 1991 and spent 10 years in jail for his supposed crimes.
After being released from jail and returning to his Hyde Park neighborhood, Randolph was registered as a convicted sex offender and the community branded him as an outcast.
Randolph and his mother were even told they weren’t allowed to be approved for public housing in the city.
In May, a Superior Court judge exonerated him after the district attorney’s office acknowledged his innocence.
His name was immediately taken off the Sex Offender Registry and the picture of him that hung in the Boston police station for years was finally removed.
Randolph has filed a suit against the city and is hoping to be compensated for all the time he lost while being in prison.
"I feel as though Guy deserves compensation" says his 74-year-old mother, who he lives with. "It’s owed to him. There are lots of things he missed out on."
(Source: The Boston Globe)
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A woman living in Syracuse, New York, recently reached a settlement in the suit she filed against the city for her false arrest and imprisonment.
The arrest occurred four years ago and since this time the woman, was arrested on drug charges and despite her pleads with the officers, was taken to the Auburn Police Station.
Teresa Morris says she was getting ready to leave for work on the day when three law enforcement officers came to her home and arrested her on cocaine-related charges.
Morris, who was 39 at the time, was handcuffed in front of her son and taken to the police station where she was questioned, fingerprinted and photographed.
After three hours of being in jail, the officers realized they had the wrong person, apologized, and took her home, with her handcuffs still on.
According to the suit filed by Morris, she suffered from post-traumatic stress syndrome. She filed the suit against the city claiming false arrest and imprisonment, assault and battery and for the violation of her constitutional rights.
The case was settled this week and Morris was compensated $30,000 in damages for the incident.
(Source: Syracuse.com)
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According to reports, a man who was wrongly imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit is now eligible to receive more money from the state of North Carolina.
Before lawmakers bring this year’s legislative session to a close, lawmakers have agreed to give the man, along with others who are eligible, $50,000 each.
The victims were reportedly already given compensation, but this latest payout will be given in addition for their time in prison.
Dwayne Dail spent 18 years in prison for a rape, which it was recently found, he didn’t commit.
“What I want to you to think about is if your child were accused of a crime and were sent to prison as Dwayne Dail and others have been,” stated Sen. Ellie Kinnaird, to her colleagues in the Senate.
Dail was charged with raping a child and after his sentence when Dail requested DNA testing be done, he was told the evidence was lost.
“He is now a very damaged person,” explains Kinnaird. “We feel this is what the people owe to someone who has been wrongly convicted and so badly treated.”
The Senate reportedly voted 37-1 in favor of the new measure, which will increase the amount of compensation available to the wrongly convicted.
(Source: NewsObserver)
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A man who was wrongly imprisoned for 26 years at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola was recently freed and cleared of his convictions.
The man was accused of a rape he did not commit and now, with the help of Rep. Frankie Howard, he will be compensated for his lost time.
Rickey Johnson was arrested in 1982 for breaking into a woman’s home in the middle of the night and raping her.
He was sentenced to life without parole and has been imprisoned ever since.
In 2007, the Innocence Project joined forces with Johnson’s attorney and they conducted DNA testing on evidence collected the night of the rape.
The DNA profile reportedly did not match Johnson, but instead matched one of the inmates he had befriended in prison who was charged with another rape in the same apartment complex.
“If police and prosecutors had not focused on Ricky Johnson so early in their investigation and if proper eyewitness were identified, the real perpetrator might have been brought to justice sooner,” says Vanessa Potkin, from the Innocence Project.
Although the $150,000 paycheck Johnson will receive won’t give him back all the years he spent in jail, Johnson and his family are happy and relieved that justice has finally be served.
“I am not the man who committed this rape, all I want to do is go home,” said Johnson when he was released.
(Source: Leesville Daily Leader)
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A new law that was recently passed in Baltimore is reportedly going to give thousands the opportunity to erase arrests from public view.
The law will apply to those who have been detained and released without being charged for any criminal behavior.
According to reports, the new law is currently effective and has proven helpful to tens of thousands of residents with minor criminal records in Baltimore City.
Many believe the law is working as intended and removing potential barriers that have prevented these residents from obtaining employment, purchasing housing, and receiving loans.
Although many have been helped by the new law, some advocates are claiming that more needs to be done in terms of those deemed “minor criminals.”
For example, the law doesn’t directly help those with minor drug convictions.
“Jobs are scarce, and we see people taking a harder look at things like criminal records simply because there are more people trying to get a job,” explains Natalie Finegar, an assistant public defender.
(Source: Baltimore Sun)
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A jury recently decided not to indict a Texas man who shot and killed two illegal immigrants who were leaving his neighbor’s house.
The man reportedly thought the men were posing a threat to him and his neighborhood and shot them in the back.
Joe Horn, 62, called authorities and declared his intention to shoot the men, who he suspected were trespassers, with his 12-gauge shotgun.
The conversation is recorded and the dispatcher told Horn multiple times that the “property is not worth killing someone over.”
However, as the tape rolled, Horn went outside and screamed at the men, “Move, or you’re dead!” before firing his weapon.
After the incident, 140,000 protestors flooded the city of Pasadena, near Houston, TX.
The controversy only grew when authorities revealed that the two men were illegal immigrants from Colombia.
“Joe would be the first to tell you that he wasn’t acting as a vigilante,” explained his attorney, Tom Lambright, to the jury.
Horn as expressed his remorse for the shootings and claims that he felt the men were harmful.
“In this case, the grand jury concluded that Mr. Horn’s use of deadly force did not rise to a criminal offense,” says Kenneth Magidson, the District Attorney for the County.
(Los Angeles Times)
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