Prisoners Who Were Later Proven Innocent (AskReddit)

serious convicted criminals have rented who were later proven innocent what's life like after being found innocent and released I was arrested for stealing from my engineering firm got arrested and taken to jail the whole experience was awful I was arrested on a Friday and ended up spending three days in jail god strip-searched put in an isolated cell completely naked because of my past use of antidepressants which deemed me worthy of suicide watch and then got marched into court in an orange jumpsuit and shackles eventually it turned out to be a case of mistaken identity but the whole experience sucked I was convicted of stealing a shitty old Ford from an alleyway near a nightclub which had an old CCTV system on it I had walked home from said nightclub the mic the car was stolen apparently very close to the time it went missing although I obviously didn't do it by than 45 thousand pounds a year roughly the police apparently thought I did spend three months in prison until the decision was overturned of course I was massively angry but also glad that the case was overturned so quickly I was due to be in there for 18 months after all I forgiven those who wrongly prosecuted me by now they were just trying to do their job although of course I don't hesitate to say that they were [ __ ] idiots to mess up that bad I was arrested and charged and convicted in one court with drunk driving and causing an accident despite having a shattered right foot and an inability to even stand I guess the officer thought my repeated falling down when he tried to force me to walk was evidence that I was drunk long story short after about eight months of the best people I've ever met being kind enough to waste hours of their day driving me back and forth to court you know because of my inability to drive with a broken foot and a couple thousand dollars in lawyer fees the arresting officer was forced to take the stand where he contradicted his report and perjured himself on three separate occasions the prosecutors immediately offered a plea deal after this which I turned down because it required me to admit guilt and required me to drive again can't divert to another state to take alcohol education classes then the prosecutor literally ripped up the agreement in front of my lawyer and quit the case the next prosecutor was much more willing to listen to terms I never got anything out of it except for a few newspaper articles that called me a criminal and tried to turn public opinion against me that required me to threaten to sue the publications to get taken down some people old friends still believe that I did it and I'm not sure why but 99% of the folks in my life believe I was innocent at least they do now it's not easy meeting new people who read those newspaper articles though I have to explain to them the whole court case to convince them that I didn't give a thing I was randomly accused of as well as how broken feet work or don't work and that gets really exhausting as far as what people don't understand about this if they haven't been through it well that's already been echoed here by others the whole time being stolen from you that you never get back even if I was compensated nothing can make up for that experience having practically the whole world turn against you because of a single false accusation and losing all hope of life's getting back to normal as nothing chivor living hell my wife now ex were in the process of separation and we were fighting over my son I was studying to become a police officer at the time we got in an argument about my son and I left for work next day she calls me and says how - ruined your life so I contact my lawyer and they tell me there is a warrant for my arrest my ex had told the police I had attacked her with a knife to get oral sex I had a first-degree second-degree assault and dangerous weapon charge no evidence no witness just her story they never even contacted me to ask my side of the story I try to get the warrant quashed and while I'm leaving for work I get stopped and arrested 150 thousand dollar bond two days in jail before my brother bails me out we get to the court date and I provided the court with text messages where she said she wanted to ruin life and career and wanted $10,000 for plastic surgery for her not to testify I was found not guilty and my ex got away with it with no consequences I spent 5 plus years of my life fighting a very very sick Earl ed charge pressed on my by the stepmother of my ex-girlfriends children regarding a small child 3 years of age this was not the first person this woman had accused the first actually blew his head off in fear of what was to come the second my ex's father was working offshore and had no contact so then came me even though we were not still together the mother still testified on my behalf because she knew the truth I beat the first charge only to have a lesser but still siccing charge pressed against me due to double jeopardy and all which I also beat although never convicted this charge still appears on my arrest recorded and follows me to this day when trying to gather apartments and somehow add various jobs and spreads like a wildfire throughout the workplace although this may be due to it being such a small town I believe it is from me busting my ass and deeper background checks being done on me and preparations for advancement in the workplace that I'll never received but this is only a speculation any loss savvy redditors care to tell my wife at ease I'm a very poor person and can not afford any sort of decent lawyer to remove this from my record or sue for any sort of restitution this has really really [ __ ] with my mind and life in general in many ways to this day my friend's girlfriend was awakened by her baby one night and she beat the kid my friend who was sleeping on the couch got up to check on the baby and found her laying funny in the crib he woke up everyone in the house and called 911 she was charged with homicide by child abuse one year later he was arrested while walking out of class at the college he was attending her lawyer went to every magistrate in the district to get him charged before finding one out of district that specializes in child abuse cases they just wanted blood I guess the best defense is a good offense he was then charged with the murder and aiding and abetting at the trial the victim's father stated that he hoped she spent the rest of her life I prison but as for my friend he could care less if he walked free that day because there wasn't much he cold done to help the situation my friend was found guilty of aiding and abetting he was sentenced to seven years in prison which was less than the 10-year minimum because of the circumstances the jury was just convinced by the prosecution that because he gave two statements he aided and abetted for a homicide by child abuse he spent two and a half years in prison before getting a chance at an appeal the judge of the appeal was like how was this man held more responsible than the grandmother whose house it was in he won the appeal and the charges were dropped the sensitivity of a child being murdered made that a struggle for him he was sent to the worst prison in the state because of the charge 22 years ago I was convicted of stealing from patients in the nursing home I worked at at the time I couldn't afford a lawyer in the public defender convinced me to take a plea dasker the sh asterisked he out of me with a possibly long prison sentence if we went to trial or a nine 12 months if I pleaded guilty the PD gave me 50 over fifty chance of winning and I took the plea I served nine months and had to repay eleven thousand dollars zero zero in restitution to the nursing home not the patients after I got out a former cow Walker told me the thefts were still going on I told the PDS office but never heard back from them I had no choice so I was making regular payments until I hit the lottery three years later I then hired a private detective and a real lawyer they successfully found the thief and got my conviction overturned even though I didn't need the money I sue the nursing and got back every penny plus int ER est I had paid them I was convicted of stealing 765 inch high-definition Samsung TVs from Best Buy to this day I don't know how they thought I hold seven 65 inch TVs from a single store by myself without being noticed they are fantastic TVs by the way as long as you know where to find 4k content I was given a compensation of roughly $600,000 I felt vindicated people were apologetic to me I went through hell and came out alive most people don't understand what it's like to have months of your life stolen from you my husband's case was minor compared to some of the other stories here but it still makes my blood boil some 21 years later my husband was driving I was in the car with him he turned right on a red light when there was no traffic cop pulls him over and tickets him saying there's a no turn on red sign right there pointing to where apparently a sign used to be we went back in the daylight the next day and there was a hole in the ground looked like a sign had been there at one time they ran his license and then handcuffed him saying he had a warrant open bracket question mark exclamation mark closed bracket we were shocked had no inkling etc pulled him off to the lockup at the police station and told me that I was lucky that they were letting me drive our car home rather than them doing and impounding it I went to the station the warrant was from an unpaid ticket almost two years earlier for an expired license plate husband told me I paid that ticket cops told me I needed two hundred dollars to bail hub outs went to ATM got the cash and we spent the rest of the night digging in the Attic through old household records to find the bank statement and cancelled check for that ticket found it went to appointed court date and the old warrant was cleared up and the red light ticket was dismissed when we provided photographic evidence that there was no sign but as we checked out we were assessed $200 in court costs and when I asked how we got our bail money back they pretty much laughed at me mute and was the Curt reply they also invited us to sue the we were already out $400 for two non crimes and certainly couldn't afford the money and time involved to hire a lawyer to sue the city of Grosse Pointe Woods one of the wealthiest suburbs of Detroit maybe this is how they got so rich so that was the end of that I was accused of raping a woman she had drunkenly let someone sleep with her and couldn't remember the name so she said it was me four months in jail every other week but I lost my job and had my life threatened almost $5,000 in legal fees out-of-pocket parents helped out and lawyer said if I was found innocent he'd get a portion of the lawsuit money but if I lost I'd have to pay him much more and I was eventually cleared my wife was arrested for an outstanding warrant on something she had taken care of years before she was charged with shoplifting for walking out of a store with sunglasses on her head that she had meant to pay for she had paid for everything else but spaced that she stuck the sunglasses on her head absently despite having $200 in cash on her and immediately offering to pay the security at the grocery store called the police on her she did community service paid fines etc apparently the county lost the paperwork so when she got pulled over for a Braca liked being out she was arrested due to a bench warrant for not paying a fine / doing her community service she managed to dig up the paperwork and get it cleared but the fact that she had a warrant out apparently invalidated her license and she never knew I'm not sure how that happened but it did so in addition she got fined and ticketed for driving without a license and driving without valid insurance because without a license you can't have valid insurance despite the fact that she paid it every month another two years later this happened again she was pulled over for going five over in a school zone and arrested on a warrant for the same alleged unpaid fines and community service because this was her second time with the same situation invalid license invalid insurance as a result all on to her she lost her license for a year and got slapped with three thousand dollars in fines to boot the judge told her she was being extremely lenient to my wife only because we had a newborn baby at the time and would normally have put her in jail for six months once again we've provided proof that she cleared up the fines and community service years ago but of the hell knows if it's taken care of it's to the point where we are considering law uring up and suing the county because if it happens again she'll wind up in jail on a third offense for no license slash insurance meanwhile I've had to take a low-paying job close to home so I can be on call to grab the kids at school or whatever if something happens and she's been homebound for over a year now going out of her mind

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Length: 13min 34sec (814 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 23 2019