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Reports Of Nigerian Released After Serving 15 years in Jail Is Fake! by Edopesin: 9:15am On May 29, 2020 |
An innocent Nigerian has been released from a United States prison after serving 15 years for a crime he didn’t commit. This is according to a Facebook post from 22 May 2020 that claims to show a photo of “Mr Tony Ugochukwu” walking out of jail The photo has also been posted on the Nigerian forum Nairaland. Who is the man in the photo, and what is his story? Meet Elmer Daniels A reverse image search reveals that the man is not Nigerian. He is Elmer Daniels from the US state of Delaware. The photo is of him leaving a correctional facility on 13 December 2018. In a video by a local news channel, Daniels is wearing in the same white T-shirt and khaki trousers as shown in the photo. Daniels was released from prison, but not after serving 15 years of an 18-year murder charge, as the Facebook post claims. In 1980, at the age of 18, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for sexual abuse. Evidence that helped convict him was later found to have been faulty. He was exonerated after he had spent nearly 40 years inside. Compensation for wrongful conviction The Facebook post also claims the man was awarded US$10 million in compensation for his wrongful imprisonment. There’s a grain of truth in that. Sean Lynn, a US lawmaker, proposed a bill in Juneh 2019 that would compensate Daniels and other Delaware residents found innocent after wrongful convictions. Lynn claims that his bill was inspired by a meeting with Daniels. The bill has not yet become law. Voting on it has been delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic. If it does become law, the bill would pay the wrongfully incarcerated $50,000 “per year of incarceration”. In Daniels’s case, he would receive just under $2 million in compensation https://africacheck.org/fbcheck/man-in-photo-is-us-citizen-not-nigerian-released-after-decades-of-wrongful-imprisonment/ Lalasticlala
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Re: Reports Of Nigerian Released After Serving 15 years in Jail Is Fake! by illicit(m): 9:18am On May 29, 2020 |
The price of freedom is inestimable The most heartless people are the ones that would keep a bird in a cage.... Why keep a bird in a cage? Who tf keeps a bird in a cage |
Re: Reports Of Nigerian Released After Serving 15 years in Jail Is Fake! by hoodedjaystrim(m): 9:25am On May 29, 2020 |
Audio after all Lmfao in the absence of good news mods are now pushing fake news to the front page 1 Like |
Re: Reports Of Nigerian Released After Serving 15 years in Jail Is Fake! by espn(m): 9:27am On May 29, 2020 |
Thanks...Seun should start banning mods that just push unverified post to front page... 1 Like |
Re: Reports Of Nigerian Released After Serving 15 years in Jail Is Fake! by TheSourcerer: 9:32am On May 29, 2020 |
illicit:lol my friend does He wicked Sha |
Re: Reports Of Nigerian Released After Serving 15 years in Jail Is Fake! by Passionate888: 9:32am On May 29, 2020 |
Igbo Amaka |
Re: Reports Of Nigerian Released After Serving 15 years in Jail Is Fake! by Edopesin: 9:36am On May 29, 2020 |
TheSourcerer: I was actually looking for a picture or video on the issue but realized it wasn't true after all 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Reports Of Nigerian Released After Serving 15 years in Jail Is Fake! by TheSourcerer: 9:39am On May 29, 2020 |
Edopesin:thank you for even considering searching it out , imagine how many bs we swallow daily here on Nairaland 1 Like |
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