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A black man who was found not guilty of armed robbery will still serve up to seven years behind bars after a judge ruled he had breached the rules of his probation sentence for another crime.
Ramad Chatman handed himself in to police when he found out he was a suspect for an armed robbery at a convenience store in his hometown of Georgia in July 2014.
"He turned himself in because he knew he was not guilty," his grandmother Janice Chatman told US news channel 11Alive.
The 24-year-old was already was serving a five year probation term (a court order served outside prison through fines and community service) for his first ever offence, breaking and entering an apartment to steal a television worth $120 (£92) in 2012.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/black-man-prison-serve-five-years-ramad-chatman-georgia-prison-not-guilty-probation-broke-terms-jail-a7744326.html
Southern 'Justice' system at it's worst.
sarisataka
(18,222 posts)disagree with a not guilty verdict and use that to determine a parole violation?
dmosh42
(2,217 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,161 posts)He didn't need a jury to decide that, and now he's saying "I don't care what the jury decided, I say he committed the robbery so I'm sending him back to prison".
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)Phoenix61
(16,954 posts)for the first offense. It's incredibly hard to complete so it guarantees a lengthy prison sentence for what may have been a very minor crime.
question everything
(47,271 posts)bitterross
(4,066 posts)There is no way that if this were a white man in GA this would happen. A white guy could have even violated his probation multiple times and still would have not gotten this treatment.
This is the Old South racism. I'm from the South. I grew up around this racism and we all know it's worse now with Trump's "win." I'd put money that the judge in this case still refers to black men as "boy" or with the n-word as he sips his whiskey at the club with others just like him.