He believes he was set up by his ex because he was planning to report a crime she had planned. The guy has a record - he's a convicted armed robber - but he spent 19 months in prison with pedophiles, accused of the same crime. The prosecutor, who is married to Attorney General Rob Hulls, hid a text message from the alleged victim stating that the claims were false, and that 'mum is making me do it': http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/i-was-innocent-but-went-to-jail/story-e6frf7kx-1225980137461 It's a horrible story. The prosecutor hid evidence she knew would have freed this man, or at least cast doubt on the claims against him. She knew this but went ahead with the trial anyway. He should be heavily compensated for the pain he has been put through. I would suggest he be given a sum of $1.9 million dollars - one hundred thousand for every month he spent behind bars with sicko child molesters. The prosecutor should be sacked, and investigated.
The prosecuter should not only be sacked but she should be disbarred, prosecuted, and if convicted, sent to prison. A term equal to that which she did her dishonest best to get for the man would probably be a fair sentence. The girlfriend should also be tried for malicious defamation, tried, and if found guilty, sent to prison for a term of at least the nineteen months the man served.
He should kill his ex and the prosecutor, as slowly and painfully as possible. Ideally, torture her to death over a period of 19 months. His life is over, might as well make it worthwhile.
Hes a heavy duty crim anyway, he shouldnt get a cent. Heres part of what he allegedly said in his defence Men of honour dont commit armed robberies either. Hes scum.
Sounds fair to me. He was still locked up for a crime he didn't commit. He was railroaded by the (*)(*)(*)(*)(*) prosecutor, and for that he deserves compensation. Lots of it.
Sure, as soon as we the taxpayers receive compensation for his previous crimes. He admits to being a career criminal, pity he wasnt offed by someone in prison.
Okay, so I get that you don't care that someone is accused of a crime they didn't commit, and locked up for 19 months because they set up by their ex partner.
Depends who that someone is, in this case a career scumbag. Wonder how many crimes he committed he didnt get caught for. Truth is there are many innocent people in jail, that is, innocent of the crimes they were charged with but not innocent of other crimes they werent. I have zero sympathy for any career scumbag who finds themselves in jail for any reason. Just like they wouldnt have sympathy for you or me Mak if we got in their way.
I don't think the taxpayers owe him compensation. The D.A. and the accuser do so he can go after them in civil court. And, I wish him good luck. As a man, it will obviously be his fault this all happened and he might get put in prison again. How much time in prison did District Attorney Nifong get? I'll save you the trouble of looking it up. He was sentenced and served...wait for it...one day in jail.
Assuming these are all the facts and they are all accurate... The Prosecutor should be fired and I would assume that deliberately hiding evidence is a crime, be criminally charged. Of course, the girlfriend should also be prosecuted. Personally, I consider both of these crimes to be on the same level as something like rape or attempted murder. A prosecutor intentionally hiding exoneratory (made up word) evidence and someone knowingly making a false accusation against someone should both be no less than a felony, because they both undermine the integrity of our system of justice. This is a tough one for me. I certainly agree that this man is owed some sort of reparation for being deprived of justice, but how much he is owed and who owes it to him are somewhat subjective. I think that the prosecutor and girlfriend should be personally liable. I would need more information before I could determine the liability of the government. Certainly the government is at least partially responsible for the misconduct of the prosecutor even if he acted alone. If the government's failure ends at the prosecutor, I do think the liability of the government should be no more than the individual liability of the prosecutor. Personally, I think placing a monetary value on 19 months of someone's life is impossible. Life is far too precious a gift to have a retail price. However, our system is such that liability is almost always expressed in monetary terms. I don't know how much he should get, but he should get as much as he can.
I agree...I think 19,000,000,000 Euros is about right. That, or let him settle for 1 Euro and be given carte blanche to do whatever he wants to the prosecutor & his ex for setting him up.
He served his time for his crime, though. It is over, he screwed up, he paid the price. This is different. He was accused of the worst crime any man could ever be accused of - child molestation. His life is ruined.
The justice system has failed him and should be liable. The punishment for criminal acts of both his ex, and her accomplice needs to be at least as severe as the punishment that he faced, including the damage to his reputation, and the trauma of being branded a pedophile.
His life is ruined. It is possible to put an approximate value on what his life would have been worth if none of this had happened. The prosecutor and girlfriend should be sued for the difference between what his life would have been worth and what it is worth now.
It's scary that there are people who say this man shouldn't get anything because "he's innocent of this crime, but not of the crimes he got away with." Innocent until proven guilty. PROVE he got away with anything. If you can't, I say 1 million dollars per month incarcerated as you cannot get that time of your life back. It is gone forever.
Ideally the prosecutor should be disbarred and charged with a crime as well as the ex girlfriend and they should both go to jail. Then the guy should get a lot of compensation for his wrongful conviction and finally after he gets his money the people that he admitted to robbing can sue him in civil court and get all that money for compensation themselves. Its win win for everyone. Dirty prosecutor and ex in jail, and the victims of the guy get some money for themselves.
The prosecutor needs to be disbarred and never allowed to practice law again. Whatever her assets are, and with the husbands as well,, should be seized, sold, and the proceeds as compensation to the guy. Finally, the alleged charged needs to be removed completely from his criminal record. Even being accused of this type of crime would make any employer nervous, he would be barred from participating in most kids sports activities, and so forth if said alleged charges are not removed immediately. The Ex Girlfriend needs to be charged, tried, and hopefully convicted of providing false statements and criminal conspiracy charges to rob, assault, and slander a person.
Just because he is an armed robber, doesn't make him a liar. Do you fight an unlawful ticket? Lose? If yo have several of them, you are technically an habitual offender..Like that brand? Once a person has done their time and is outside of probation, he has paid his price to society.That doesn't automatically make him a baby raper.
I am not sure why you hate justice and the American way but that said he is victim of a government official and should be compensated. That person should be seriously punished for this abuse of power and it calls into question every one of the prosecutions she worked on.
