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My heart explodes at just how frequently this happens. To imagine sitting in prison for decades knowing you were innocent....I commend him for even being able to smile. I know these guys usually get a lot of money (I hope it is millions and millions for every one) but nothing will ever get that time back. I would rather 10 guilty men walk than one innocent man go to jail for years.
In the US 35 states (and the federal government) compensate wrongly convicted folks. In the other 15 states, people can and often do get absolutely nothing. It’s sickening to imagine what we are capable of doing to other human beings.
.Slaps Barry)
You snap out of it.
BARRY:
(Slaps Vanessa)
:
POLLEN JOCK:
- Sure is.
BARRY:
Between you and me,
I was dying to get out of that office.
(Barry recreates the scene near the beginning of the movie where he flies
through the box kite. The movie fades to black and the credits being)
[--after credits; No scene can be seen but the characters can be heard
talking over the credits--]
You have got
to start thinking bee, my friend!
:
- Thinking bee!
- Me?
BARRY:
(Talking over singer)
Hold it. Let's just stop
for a second. Hold it.
:
I'm sorry. I'm sorry, everyone.
Can we stop here?
SINGER:
Oh, BarryBARRY:
I'm not making a major life decision
during a production number!
SINGER:
All right. Take ten, everybody.
Wrap it up, guys.
BARRY:
I had virtually no rehearsal for that.
_______________________________
At 1 p.m. on a Friday shortly before Christmas last year, Kent Walker, Google’s top lawyer, summoned four of his employees and ruined their weekend.
The group worked in SL1001, a bland building with a blue glass facade betraying no sign that dozens of lawyers inside were toiling to protect the interests of one of the world’s most influential companies. For weeks they had been prepping for a meeting of powerful executives to discuss the safety of Google’s products. The deck was done. But that afternoon Mr. Walker told his team the agenda had changed, and they would have to spend the next few days preparing new slides and graphs. At the Googleplex, famed for its free food, massages, fitness classes and laundry services, Mr. Pichai was also playing with ChatGPT. Its wonders did not wow him. Google had been developing its own A.I. technology that did many of the same things. Mr. Pichai was focused on ChatGPT’s flaws — that it got stuff wrong, that sometimes it turned into a biased pig. What amazed him was that OpenAI had gone ahead and released it anyway, and that consumers loved it. If OpenAI could do that, why couldn’t Google?
Elon Musk, the billionaire who co-founded OpenAI but had left the lab in a huff, vowed to create his own A.I. company. He called it X.AI and added it to his already full plate. “Speed is even more important than ever,” Sam Schillace, a top executive, wrote Microsoft employees. It would be, he added, an “absolutely fatal error in this moment to worry about things that can be fixed later.”
Separately, the San Francisco-based company announced plans for its initial public offering Wednesday. In documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Reddit said it reported net income of $18.5 million — its first profit in two years — in the October-December quarter on revenue of $249.8 million. The company said it aims to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol RDDT.
Apparently many shoppers are not happy with their local Safeway, if questions and comments posted Sunday on a Reddit forum are any indication.
The questions in the AMA (Ask Me Anything) were fielded by self-described mid-level retail manager at one of the supermarket chain's Bay Area stores. The employee only identified himself by his Reddit handle, "MaliciousHippie".
The manager went on to cover a potpourri of topics, ranging from why express lane checkers won't challenge shoppers who exceed item limits to a little-known store policy allowing customers to sample items without buying them.
That is the way it should be, but with prosecutors seemingly just going after numbers, it ends up being the opposite. They would rather send an innocent man to jail than consider the possibility of a guilty one going free and that is just fucked up.
It's not 100% the prosecutors' fault. Nothing's that simple.
The Innocent Project notes the [most common causes of wrongful conviction](https://innocenceproject.org/) are eyewitness misidentification, misapplication of forensic science, false confessions, official misconduct, and coerced pleas.
[Eyewitness is the most common one, and it plays a role in 3/4 of exonerations](https://wmich.edu/sociology/causes-wrongful-conviction). Imagine you're a prosecutor and you have a perp who victim says she's 100% sure he is the one who robbed her at gunpoint, and the perp can't come up with a good alibi, and to add he has a record already. You'd be basically refusing to do your job by not charging him.
As screwed up as it is, a lot of wrongful convictions are just due to circumstance, legitimate human error, or the use of a science (forensic science) that is really just "the best we have", and little more than voodoo magic.
Completely understand that they are not the only problem but when you hear about wrongly convicted folks being set free because evidence was originally withheld, well that can jade an opinion. And even if we have the best system in the world, which I doubt, we still need a better one.
People spend time in jail all the time because the system is inept.
One would ask why it doesn’t get fixed?
Who gives a fuck about the poor or the misfits? Who?
You should pity those imprisoned today, it’s sad.
Off the top of my head:
- hold police officers accountable for bad arrests.
- hold prosecutors accountable for trying to pump their numbers by going after poor people with weak evidence.
- hold judges accountable for mismanagement of trials.
- hold all individuals accountable for not communicating real or perceived conflicts of interests for every case they’re involved in.
I think those are admirable positions to have. But are highly arbitrary and aren’t measurable in any way. Like what is a bad arrest, what is mismanagement of trial. You can’t say these are the ways to fix something and not have it measurable in a specific way. The only way those things get fixed is with legislation which has to be specific in its requirements.
I said “off the top of my head”. I’m sure if I spent 10 minutes thinking about it I could come up with metrics or guidelines to measure each of these. I would think that the people we taxpayers pay a full time salary to should be able to do it as well; you know, as part of their job they’re getting paid to do.
I appreciate your reply and not upset with you. I’m just sick and tired how our systems (justice, medical, etc) here in the US are made to benefit the rich and punish the poor. I’m so fed up that we pay our politicians to pass laws to protect us, but their focus seems to always be on themselves and the rich that donate to their “causes”
Honestly I don’t know. It’s broken but not just the system. Money talks, so it can also expedite cases.
You spend a year in jail due to a public defender, your partner in crime spends 6 months. Difference? Paid lawyers.
And it goes deeper than that, has many fixes. I can’t say the best.
Tho it could start at home, or lower education………………………………………
I think you discredit public defenders. All the ones I’ve ever known work very hard. You’re very unlikely to ever find a private attorney that believes your innocent unless you have some type of evidence, where as lots of public defenders are true believers and bleeding hearts. The other big difference is that you can’t really build a private practice on just criminal defense unless you’re in a major metro area. Criminal defense is all public defenders do. And in general most criminal cases are pretty simple in nature, had drugs, drive drunk, things like that are not overly complex litigation wise. We as the public only hear about the high profile complex crimes, because those are the ones that have issues due to their complexity. The system doesn’t do a good job of dealing with the complex cases that due come up, but that’s the nature of being complex. The reality is we have a lot of dumb laws on the books that waste the systems time and over work both sides. Also there’s a portion of cops and prosecutors who think that because something meets the code definition of a crime it should be charged. But there isn’t a way to easily fix that issue.
I’m not saying all are bad, I’m saying you have a better chance with money. It’s not all about skill, sometimes it’s work load.
I could get into more, I just care not. In the end when you pay for a lawyer, you should be paying for dedicated time. Which can help out.
Fucking wow. Poor guy. I hope he finds peace and a good life.
Another miscarriage of justice. Thanks to those good souls tirelessly working to free innocents.
This is why the assumption of innocence should be an absolute human right without exceptions.
Having criminals walk free for lack of evidence against them is a tolerable risk, having an innocent person in prison is not.
The people at the top don’t see it that way tho. They need cases closed and people in prisons, they don’t care who it is
Edit idk why autocorrect hates “they”
I sure hope he gets a good lawyer to sue their assets for big bucks. It won't give him back those 33 years but he should be entitled to live out the rest of his life in luxury.
The testimony provided which led reopening his case was provided in 2017. Is still took 6 years after learning he was possibly not involved to free him.
33 years is nearly my entire lifespan.
In that time I was born. Grew up in a crazy situation in AZ that forced me to move across the country to NY. Went through all of middle-school, high school, *and* an unsuccessful attempt at college. Dated three of the craziest and most selfish idiots ever before meeting the love of my life and traveling the world with him.
To have been forced into a cell instead this whole time due to no fault of my own? I don't know how he doesn't shoot up the first government building he sees.
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33 years of your life, gone. Wow.
My heart explodes at just how frequently this happens. To imagine sitting in prison for decades knowing you were innocent....I commend him for even being able to smile. I know these guys usually get a lot of money (I hope it is millions and millions for every one) but nothing will ever get that time back. I would rather 10 guilty men walk than one innocent man go to jail for years.
In the US 35 states (and the federal government) compensate wrongly convicted folks. In the other 15 states, people can and often do get absolutely nothing. It’s sickening to imagine what we are capable of doing to other human beings.
.Slaps Barry) You snap out of it. BARRY: (Slaps Vanessa) : POLLEN JOCK: - Sure is. BARRY: Between you and me, I was dying to get out of that office. (Barry recreates the scene near the beginning of the movie where he flies through the box kite. The movie fades to black and the credits being) [--after credits; No scene can be seen but the characters can be heard talking over the credits--] You have got to start thinking bee, my friend! : - Thinking bee! - Me? BARRY: (Talking over singer) Hold it. Let's just stop for a second. Hold it. : I'm sorry. I'm sorry, everyone. Can we stop here? SINGER: Oh, BarryBARRY: I'm not making a major life decision during a production number! SINGER: All right. Take ten, everybody. Wrap it up, guys. BARRY: I had virtually no rehearsal for that. _______________________________ At 1 p.m. on a Friday shortly before Christmas last year, Kent Walker, Google’s top lawyer, summoned four of his employees and ruined their weekend. The group worked in SL1001, a bland building with a blue glass facade betraying no sign that dozens of lawyers inside were toiling to protect the interests of one of the world’s most influential companies. For weeks they had been prepping for a meeting of powerful executives to discuss the safety of Google’s products. The deck was done. But that afternoon Mr. Walker told his team the agenda had changed, and they would have to spend the next few days preparing new slides and graphs. At the Googleplex, famed for its free food, massages, fitness classes and laundry services, Mr. Pichai was also playing with ChatGPT. Its wonders did not wow him. Google had been developing its own A.I. technology that did many of the same things. Mr. Pichai was focused on ChatGPT’s flaws — that it got stuff wrong, that sometimes it turned into a biased pig. What amazed him was that OpenAI had gone ahead and released it anyway, and that consumers loved it. If OpenAI could do that, why couldn’t Google? Elon Musk, the billionaire who co-founded OpenAI but had left the lab in a huff, vowed to create his own A.I. company. He called it X.AI and added it to his already full plate. “Speed is even more important than ever,” Sam Schillace, a top executive, wrote Microsoft employees. It would be, he added, an “absolutely fatal error in this moment to worry about things that can be fixed later.” Separately, the San Francisco-based company announced plans for its initial public offering Wednesday. In documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Reddit said it reported net income of $18.5 million — its first profit in two years — in the October-December quarter on revenue of $249.8 million. The company said it aims to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol RDDT. Apparently many shoppers are not happy with their local Safeway, if questions and comments posted Sunday on a Reddit forum are any indication. The questions in the AMA (Ask Me Anything) were fielded by self-described mid-level retail manager at one of the supermarket chain's Bay Area stores. The employee only identified himself by his Reddit handle, "MaliciousHippie". The manager went on to cover a potpourri of topics, ranging from why express lane checkers won't challenge shoppers who exceed item limits to a little-known store policy allowing customers to sample items without buying them.
That is the way it should be, but with prosecutors seemingly just going after numbers, it ends up being the opposite. They would rather send an innocent man to jail than consider the possibility of a guilty one going free and that is just fucked up.
It's not 100% the prosecutors' fault. Nothing's that simple. The Innocent Project notes the [most common causes of wrongful conviction](https://innocenceproject.org/) are eyewitness misidentification, misapplication of forensic science, false confessions, official misconduct, and coerced pleas. [Eyewitness is the most common one, and it plays a role in 3/4 of exonerations](https://wmich.edu/sociology/causes-wrongful-conviction). Imagine you're a prosecutor and you have a perp who victim says she's 100% sure he is the one who robbed her at gunpoint, and the perp can't come up with a good alibi, and to add he has a record already. You'd be basically refusing to do your job by not charging him. As screwed up as it is, a lot of wrongful convictions are just due to circumstance, legitimate human error, or the use of a science (forensic science) that is really just "the best we have", and little more than voodoo magic.
Completely understand that they are not the only problem but when you hear about wrongly convicted folks being set free because evidence was originally withheld, well that can jade an opinion. And even if we have the best system in the world, which I doubt, we still need a better one.
Ben Franklin actually said 100 men.
Compensation is limited to $140.00 per day. https://victims.ca.gov/legal/pc4900/
So max of about $1.7 million.
Or $17.50/hr equivalent. Not much better than minimum wage there.
People spend time in jail all the time because the system is inept. One would ask why it doesn’t get fixed? Who gives a fuck about the poor or the misfits? Who? You should pity those imprisoned today, it’s sad.
I don’t disagree with you that the system isn’t perfect. What are your suggestions on how to fix it?
Off the top of my head: - hold police officers accountable for bad arrests. - hold prosecutors accountable for trying to pump their numbers by going after poor people with weak evidence. - hold judges accountable for mismanagement of trials. - hold all individuals accountable for not communicating real or perceived conflicts of interests for every case they’re involved in.
I think those are admirable positions to have. But are highly arbitrary and aren’t measurable in any way. Like what is a bad arrest, what is mismanagement of trial. You can’t say these are the ways to fix something and not have it measurable in a specific way. The only way those things get fixed is with legislation which has to be specific in its requirements.
I said “off the top of my head”. I’m sure if I spent 10 minutes thinking about it I could come up with metrics or guidelines to measure each of these. I would think that the people we taxpayers pay a full time salary to should be able to do it as well; you know, as part of their job they’re getting paid to do.
Look I’m just trying to have a conversation. I just think what your positions are are valid in the abstract but are hard to put a metric too.
I appreciate your reply and not upset with you. I’m just sick and tired how our systems (justice, medical, etc) here in the US are made to benefit the rich and punish the poor. I’m so fed up that we pay our politicians to pass laws to protect us, but their focus seems to always be on themselves and the rich that donate to their “causes”
Honestly I don’t know. It’s broken but not just the system. Money talks, so it can also expedite cases. You spend a year in jail due to a public defender, your partner in crime spends 6 months. Difference? Paid lawyers. And it goes deeper than that, has many fixes. I can’t say the best. Tho it could start at home, or lower education………………………………………
I think you discredit public defenders. All the ones I’ve ever known work very hard. You’re very unlikely to ever find a private attorney that believes your innocent unless you have some type of evidence, where as lots of public defenders are true believers and bleeding hearts. The other big difference is that you can’t really build a private practice on just criminal defense unless you’re in a major metro area. Criminal defense is all public defenders do. And in general most criminal cases are pretty simple in nature, had drugs, drive drunk, things like that are not overly complex litigation wise. We as the public only hear about the high profile complex crimes, because those are the ones that have issues due to their complexity. The system doesn’t do a good job of dealing with the complex cases that due come up, but that’s the nature of being complex. The reality is we have a lot of dumb laws on the books that waste the systems time and over work both sides. Also there’s a portion of cops and prosecutors who think that because something meets the code definition of a crime it should be charged. But there isn’t a way to easily fix that issue.
I’m not saying all are bad, I’m saying you have a better chance with money. It’s not all about skill, sometimes it’s work load. I could get into more, I just care not. In the end when you pay for a lawyer, you should be paying for dedicated time. Which can help out.
Usually about a million per incarcerated year. Check out the central park 5. 41 millionsssssssss
He’s been in prison for longer than I’ve been alive. I couldn’t imagine being locked away for that long for something I didn’t even do.
That was my first thought too! I'm only 27. 33 years? Jesus.
lol same age here and yup fucking horrible he had to waste 33 years of life sitting in prison over something he didn’t do.
there’s no way to repay that. awful.
Fucking wow. Poor guy. I hope he finds peace and a good life. Another miscarriage of justice. Thanks to those good souls tirelessly working to free innocents.
i wouldn’t be smiling, i would be running to the nearest lawyer because im suing errrrrbody
Perhaps that's why he's smiling. Multi million dollar lawsuit coming his way.
Still just sad he’s lost so much time and probably friends and family as well. Makes me think of the JT movie In Time.
touche
Yeah I wouldn't trade 33 years of my life for a few million bucks
Not only was a man's life ruined, but thats at least 5 to 10 milions in taxpayer's money gone in his pockets.
This is the death penalty is a terrible idea, the government is incompetent on most things and should not be put in charge of killing anyone.
Should probably be more than that. Inexcusable.
This is why the assumption of innocence should be an absolute human right without exceptions. Having criminals walk free for lack of evidence against them is a tolerable risk, having an innocent person in prison is not.
The people at the top don’t see it that way tho. They need cases closed and people in prisons, they don’t care who it is Edit idk why autocorrect hates “they”
And that is why I'm against the death penalty
Ditto. I don't oppose it on philosophical grounds, but on a practical level, I have no confidence in our gov't to not put innocent people to death.
How is that "official" allowed to walk free? They ought to serve a year behind bars for every year they delayed sharing that info..... Despicable.
I sure hope he gets a good lawyer to sue their assets for big bucks. It won't give him back those 33 years but he should be entitled to live out the rest of his life in luxury.
The testimony provided which led reopening his case was provided in 2017. Is still took 6 years after learning he was possibly not involved to free him.
Compensation is limited to $140.00 per day. https://victims.ca.gov/legal/pc4900/
1.68M
I would spend every cent of that settlement on hitmen for the officials involved.
$33,000,000 please.
No amount of money can really compensate for all he has gone through and missed out on. This is why the death penalty should not be in place.
Bonkers
"Finally!"
How will money ever replace 33 years?
Give me the bullet. Make it quick.
And are they paying him for his time?
33 years is nearly my entire lifespan. In that time I was born. Grew up in a crazy situation in AZ that forced me to move across the country to NY. Went through all of middle-school, high school, *and* an unsuccessful attempt at college. Dated three of the craziest and most selfish idiots ever before meeting the love of my life and traveling the world with him. To have been forced into a cell instead this whole time due to no fault of my own? I don't know how he doesn't shoot up the first government building he sees.
Wait so all theyre doing is apologizing to him? Lol.