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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Sat May 20, 2017, 02:42 PM May 2017

Black man will spend six years in Georgia prison despite jury finding him 'not guilty'

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.

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Black man will spend six years in Georgia prison despite jury finding him 'not guilty' (Original Post) n2doc May 2017 OP
How can a judge sarisataka May 2017 #1
Also keeps him off voting rolls, I think? dmosh42 May 2017 #2
He would have had to violate a condition of his parole/probation what was it.... Thomas Hurt May 2017 #3
The judge thinks he committed the robbery, so said that violated the conditions muriel_volestrangler May 2017 #4
"thinks he committed" !?!?! That's it?! fuckin wow ... no justice at all !!! uponit7771 May 2017 #5
There's a reason he was given 5 years probation Phoenix61 May 2017 #6
They are still fighting the Civil War - in Congress and in the courts (nt) question everything May 2017 #7
Black Man in Georgia - that's all I needed to know to understand. bitterross May 2017 #8

muriel_volestrangler

(101,161 posts)
4. The judge thinks he committed the robbery, so said that violated the conditions
Sat May 20, 2017, 03:10 PM
May 2017

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".

Phoenix61

(16,954 posts)
6. There's a reason he was given 5 years probation
Sat May 20, 2017, 03:26 PM
May 2017

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.

 

bitterross

(4,066 posts)
8. Black Man in Georgia - that's all I needed to know to understand.
Sat May 20, 2017, 03:41 PM
May 2017

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.

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