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| Innocent Man Spend Waste 35yrs In Prison, Go Home With $1.75m by Okwyjesus(m): 10:13pm On Dec 17, 2009 |
BARTOW, Fla. – James Bain used a cell phone for the first time Thursday, calling his elderly mother to tell her he had been freed after 35 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit. Mobile devices didn't exist in 1974, the year he was sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping a 9-year-old boy and raping him in a nearby field. Neither did the sophisticated DNA testing that officials more recently used to determine he could not have been the rapist. "Nothing can replace the years Jamie has lost," said Seth Miller, a lawyer for the Florida Innocence Project, which helped Bain win freedom. "Today is a day of renewal." Bain spent more time in prison than any of the 246 inmates previously exonerated by DNA evidence nationwide, according to the project. The longest-serving before him was James Lee Woodard of Dallas, who was released last year after spending more than 27 years in prison for a murder he did not commit.Florida last year passed a law that automatically grants former inmates found innocent $50,000 for each year they spent in prison. No legislative approval is needed. That means Bain is entitled to $1.75 million http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091217/ap_on_re_us/us_old_rape_dna Maybe you've read it but l couldnt believe this height of injustice and how this man wasted his life in jail for as in he is innocent of, what is $1.75m compared to years lost. |
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