Innocent man freed after 17 years in a first-of-its-kind hearing

Believe all the lies you like. It makes you fit in with the company you keep.

 

These people want to know what you're trying to imply, o_t....

 

jan was such a bitch

 

I'd be very tempted to take the $750K rather than take my chances at trial and have my attorney take a percentage of any potential award.

 

Wake County has sometimes had better prosecutors than Durham County, but for some reason they never win at the same level.

 

That's an easy statement. Durham County had Mike Nifong. Pretty difficult not to be better than that guy.

 

Apparently Raleigh police still think he's their man, despite the declaration of innocence from the 3-judge panel.

He begged them to test his clothes for DNA for 17 years and they ignored him. Now that he's free, Raleigh police won't give his clothes back until they test it for DNA.

And the governor is dragging her heels on a pardon, which means he isn't eligible to collect the cash given to wrongfully imprisoned people in North Carolina. Oh, and the DMV won't let him get his license because he never completed some coursework from a 1991 DWI because he was arrested before he could finish. When he does get his license back, he'll probably have to have an ignition lock, despite 17 years of sobriety.

What a mess. He's worse off than if he had been paroled.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/03/17/392977/exonerated-taylor-now-feels-hassled.html

 

To boot, if he'd been convicted wrongly of rape instead of murder, he would've had to register as a sex offender while his pardon was pending, which is a tag that stays on for life. He'd have been better off staying in prison.

 

The governor finally saw fit to grant him a pardon, which makes him automatically eligible for a $750,000 payment from the state. It's a shame that it took her this long and her inaction shows a gaping loophole in the system. He should've been eligible for the payment after the innocence commission's determination. Money can't make these guys whole, but at least he'll get some help in rebuilding his life.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/05/21/494087/greg-taylor-pardoned-by-governor.html