3 Black Men Released From New York Prison After 24 Years. Judge Determined That Prosecutors Withheld

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Evidence of Their Innocence

It seems like not more than a few weeks ever passes before The Root covers another story about wrongly convicted Black men being released from prison after spending years and even decades behind bars for crimes they did not commit due to the wilful negligence and indifference of law enforcement and courts.

In 1996, George Bell, Rohan Bolt and Gary Johnson were arrested and convicted of murdering an off-duty police officer and the owner of a check-cashing store in Queens, N.Y. On Friday, a judge ordered their exoneration and release from prison after it was determined that evidence of their innocence was “deliberately withheld” from their attorneys.

From the Washington Post:

“After I was convicted for capital murder, I couldn’t fathom or wrap my mind around how God would allow the justice system I believed in to fail me in such a tragic fashion,” said Bell, who confessed to authorities in connection with the shooting deaths of New York police officer Charles Davis and another man, Ira Epstein, whose check-cashing store in Queens was robbed the morning of Dec. 21, 1996.

Although Bell and Johnson, then 19 and 22 years old, respectively, both confessed, they had been “subject to coercive interrogations” and their statements “bear all the hallmarks of the false confessions that resulted in wrongful convictions in the past,” according to a motion filed earlier Friday by private attorneys and public defenders involved in the effort to overturn their convictions.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/3-black-men-released-york-193000280.html

24 fucking years!!!!!

[stillcool]

1. I just read another story...

from March 3rd...after 40 years the guy gets out.

TROUP COUNTY, Ga. — For the first time in 40 years, Terry Talley is a free man. The 63-year-old spent the majority of his life in prison for crimes he did not commit.

Talley walked out of the Dooly State Prison on Feb. 23. He described the moment as a “blessing.”

“Today is such a blessing. Words can’t describe how it feels to finally be free after all these years,” Talley said. “I’m so thankful for my family, who kept me going all this time, and for the Georgia Innocence Project, who never gave up.”
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/crime-law/georgia-man-freed-after-spending-40-years-prison-crimes-he-didnt-commit/FEENNGNRKBB2BGB4RPNKF3PJGY/#:~:text=Live%20Video%20%7C-,Georgia%20man%20freed%20after%20spending%2040%20years%20in,crimes%20he%20didn't%20commit&text=TROUP%20COUNTY%2C%20Ga.,crimes%20he%20did%20not%20commit.

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2. You know what, prosecutors?

When you coerce confessions and frame the wrong guys for killing a cop, the actual killer or killers walk free. Good luck finding the actual killer 24 years later.

[orangecrush]

3. They don't care at all about that

They care about racking up a conviction rate.

[Duppers]

5. Wish I believed in a hell. nt

[MagickMuffin]

7. And locking up black men, especially young impressionable black men

Keeps em off the streets ya know and from voting!

[USALiberal]

4. And many DUers are ok with the death penalty!

[soldierant]

6. God knows we have some prosecutors I can only call demonic.

And furthermore, the system is set up to make the that way even if they weren't already.

But there are also some good ones, who are not only trying to be better, but trying to get others to join them.

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One member of the group, Larry Krasner was interviewed by Samanthat Bee in 2018.

He has faced a lot of pushback. But he is still trying.

[uponit7771]

8. Black.people are over represented in exonerations too, bogus charges and prosecutions