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- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+56so? there are people sitting on death row because of mistaken identity, why is this guy anymore important?
- Rockout, on 10/11/2007, -0/+49"Jordan said he repeatedly tried to explain to cops that they had the wrong guy, but they wouldn’t listen to him."
It's a wonder that tactic didn't work. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4520 whole hours in jail? This man will be traumatized for life. he deserves millions in compensation
- whataboutdave, on 10/11/2007, -2/+31Dugg for being named "Michael Jordan"... and then being confused with a third Michael Jordan.
- SpectralSounds, on 10/11/2007, -2/+20I almost got arrested once because of this. I was pulled over and put in the back of the police car, because apparently my license had been suspended for years because of a D.U.I. I told the officer I hadnt ever gotten a D.U.I. and of course he didnt believe me. The problem is that my license had been suspended for this charge, before I even had a license.
It took me a little bit to convince the cop that it was all a mistake. He decided to let me go. So, I went to the courthouse to get it resolved. The clerk acted like she dealt with this kind of problem every day. The problem was fixed and they couldnt explain how it happened. She said somebody must have entered the wrong information. I asked her why anybody would be in my file entering ANYTHING and she couldnt answer that... she acted like she couldnt give a *****. I hate the system. - sixthplanet, on 10/11/2007, -7/+24This is wouldn't happen if we all had our fingerprints and DNA on file just like President Bush would like us to do!
/sarcasm - goboi, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17This is not that big of a deal. I'm a Law Enforcement officer, and this happens all the time. Would you rather us not confirm ones identity and just let 'em go if they tell us they aren't who we think they are. It should be noted that more often than not, we realize we have the wrong person before it gets to this, but it does happen.
- Unclickable, on 10/11/2007, -4/+14seen that in the news http://beconfused.com/images/2006/10/Channel-7-newscaster-looking-for-rapist.jpg
- ElGuano, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Were you the guy they were looking for? There's a difference between getting a trial dismissed and being the entirely wrong person they're trying to catch.
- mastercheif, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7You sound like a lawyer to me.
- gmprunner, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Unfortunately those points use too much logic and too little generalization for the digg audience to listen to them. The anti-cop mentality reins supreme, sadly.
- gmprunner, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7Because they did it to you on purpose, right?
- Racerx52, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6This guy is white
- iDiggIt42, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Since when is 20 hours more than a day?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4"20 hours jail" is drastically different than "normal jail", and even that is drasitcally different than prison. This guy sat around in a holding cell for awhile. Wow, tough time served.
- MrRogers, on 10/11/2007, -0/+320 hours of his life wasted? He probably would have wasted it anyways.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5This happens a lot. So what, you spent a day in jail. Did you get rimmed by Bubba? Probably not. And they most likely fed you.
- MrRogers, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I am sure the cops never heard that excuse before?
- okie4life, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4okay, but think of it this way. How many people do you think are arrested hourly? It's not as easy as you think it is to check identity. People are put in line and another thing, cops keep your ass safe so show some ***** appreciation.
- Error601, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Read too many paranoid pot head web sites??
- gmprunner, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5"she acted like she couldnt give a *****."
Why should she? Why would she care? If you wanted some sympathy or straight answers you were talking to the wrong person. - cactus476, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Because maybe I'm paying her to be there and if she/her boss can't do the job correctly, then my boot's going in someone's ass.
- MeMongo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2It's actually Gattaca. The movie name is made up of the four DNA elements:
Guanine
Thiamine
Cytosine
Adenine
G, T, C, A
Our DNA patterns are different combinations of those four letters and the makers of the movie based the name on the fact that DNA is so commonly used in that particular future - wolferz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2"She said somebody must have entered the wrong information. I asked her why anybody would be in my file entering ANYTHING and she couldnt answer that..."
They would be in your file because they pulled up the wrong file as a result of entering the wrong information... Seems self explanatory to me. It's ***** up, but still rather obvious. - dr0psy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3you must be heartbroken that you didnt go to trial and they let you out...
- datastorageguy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2What the hell are you babbling about?
- PolishNInja, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I tried to explain to them is was national skateboard day, but they wouldn't listen to me.
- datastorageguy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2"have an innate distrust of anyone who wants to put themselves in a position of authority over their peers"
They don't put themselves in a position over you, the law does. The law comes from the people elected to office democratically. - draxenato, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4I'm no fan of the police, I have an innate distrust of anyone who wants to put themselves in a position of authority over their peers, but this doesn't seem that bad to me. 20 hours is probably the length of time it took to check his prints and maybe his DNA, confirm there was a case of mistaken identity and check out the guy's story. At least someone listened to him and followed up his claims, that doesn't always happen. And the local PD aren't trying to bury it, the guy hasn't had a gag order imposed on him, and they've stuck their hands up and said "Yeah, it's our fault. We made a mistake, we're sorry."
That seems fair to me. - Harbinger67, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3***** like you are the reason our legal system is so screwed. Not everything deserves to have a lawsuit thrown at it.
- jspegele, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2go back and read again
- MarkOfTheDead, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1they don't feed people in holding cells, jackass.
- Ostizzle, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1You're Lebowski, Lebowski.
- mountaincable, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1If you think we live in democracy, you're just ***** yourself. Did anyone ask you if you voted to go to war? Did you vote for the Patriot Act? This is not power of the people.
- MarkOfTheDead, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1and their budget will go crashing through the floor as it will not seem necessity anymore, and they'll start making their own "crimes" that disowbey the law that needs to be "enfoced". basically the ***** will start choking more 13 yr-olds on skateboards and beating up even more blacks.
however, running his id and comparing on a database on those shiny new laptops that they drive around almost rear-ending people because theyre busy ***** with, would have been a better solution than having him sit for 20 hours in jail where his family knew not where he was. - MarkOfTheDead, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1the best i ever got misidentified by the homeless was "that white ***** who stole my good shoes"
- cactus476, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Who said the resolution was to find the real criminal?
"I'm sorry sir, but since we can't find who really did the crime, you'll just have to do for now" - rhawk301, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1yeah, yeah, and we can all register in a central census database with our family history, bloodlines, and race affiliations. The government takes such good care of this data that I would feel safer. If they could only issue us a national ID card, and implant microchips in our hands, identity mistakes would never happen again. It would be a brave new world. go New World Order, rah, rah, rah.
- theillest1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Slow news day?
- Winston84, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1this is why everybody should have a number tattooed on their arm at birth together with the RFID chip implant .
- Leviathan777, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This is why we need habeas corpus for everyone. Oh, I'm sorry, Jesus Morales, we thought you were the other one, from Columbia, who was doing heroin deals with Al Qaeda. But now that we've brought you over to a secret prison and tortured you, we obviously can't let you go, right?
- anarchytv, on 10/11/2007, -8/+9I spent 721 days in prison... yeah prison, not a real jail, a real prison, and I won my appeal, and yeah, in the center of motherloving slavery Georgia. And yeah, the legal system is absolute total bull ***** *****. Once you win your appeal, the conviction is overturned, and you are instanly legally innocent again. I was always innocent from day one, but now I had everything of their little slander game against me thrown out. You would think they would open the door and let you out. They didn't. After almost 700 days in prison, I sat a whole another month in prison after winning my appeal, wondering if I would ever escape that nightmare. You think this goes on only in Soviet Russia? Think again. There I was, a legally innocent man, sitting in prison. Working in a prison, an innocent man, as a slave. Slavery in Georgia. In this century no less.
There is nothing about this guy to laugh about. Sure, what I did was a thousand times longer, but he's got my 100% sympathy. You don't understand what the hell they do to you in there. Its five years later, and I am still mader than hell. Not just today. Every day. Every day since day one. Do you know what its like to be furious for five years straight? Its not fun. Its not something you let go. How can you let it go. After about 500 days in that hell, something inside of you dies, no matter how much you fight the place. Once I had a life. Now all I have is a mission.
Hey you, do one day in prison. Who's going to step up? Anybody? Come on. Think you're tough? How about a week. Oh you're tough, you can do a month. Now lets stretch that out to three months. Three months turns to six, six to nine, nine to a year, a year to a year and a half, then to two. You've just about lost your mind, you're IQ has plummeted. You're world consists of nothing but the contents of your locker box, with has nothing but toiletries and some paperwork. You're life is being stolen away from you. Possessions don't matter anymore. Oh, you're a tough shot huh. Lets stretch it out to 20 years, and see if that don't break the crap out of you and turn you into jello. The outside world becomes fake to you, it looks like so much like a six flags theme park. If you ever get out, you won't ever want to be around people again... you've been crammed in with 50 thousand bouncing retarded *****. Possessions won't matter to you... you've gone so long without, there is nothing you want. All you want is what was dreamed of by the original founding fathers... to be left alone, to purse life, liberty, and happiness as a free person.
Me, I'm free. I'm a thousand times now freer than any free person alive, in a zen kind of way. Its a weird, free, surreal place to be.
Don't believe the crap they fed you in civics class or you've seen on TV or the way you 'think' it is. Its not. They will get you up there, run a slander game on you, and you'll be like a deer in headlights, and you'll eigther be so scared ***** with their little game you'll let yourself be criminalized and plea out (way bad move, you're ***** then, forever), or you'll crank up a jury and they'll do their duty and rubber stamp you through, because they've been fed a diet of Cops and tough on crime propaganda every four years by politians bidding for reelection. They see you up there scared *****, cause your neck is under the knife, and you're forced to wear an orange jumpsuit, you must be guilty otherwise you wouldn't be scared, right? Wrong. You're in unfamiliar surroundings with some very nasty people making up and saying some very nasty things about you.
If you are going to fight, which I strongly suggest you do, do not use a public defender, do not even get a lawyer. Both are officers of the court. You'd be just as safe hiring a member of a crips gang to defend yourself against the crips. Fight it yourself, by yourself, with your family and friends 100% behind you. Fight it with everything you have, or get the hell out of the country, otherwise you stand not a chance.
The justice system has been stringing people up on crosses since the time of Jesus Christ, since the time of Sparticus, since the time of the Withhunts that purged Europe of any religion or views competing against the Catholic Church/state, since the Nazi and their denigridation and extermination of the Jews. The method is the same. First you slander them, you reduce them with words to someone lower than human, a criminal, and you convict them, and once you do that, you can do anything obscene and excessive to them. History hasn't changed, and if you belive America is a democracy or any different, you're in for a rude awaking when you bump into the reality. You're going to bump hard. Who is going to defend you? Can you prove you are innocent, against a state and prosecutor class, that has hundreds of years of experience painting people guilty? Believe what you want, but this geek has returned from his journey across Styx to report back otherwise and dispell all feel good illusions.
You are living in dangerous times. It didn't happen to me this way, but I just want to tell everybody, the most dangerous place to be, is to be on the road. You are fairly safe on your own property at home. But once you get in your car and get on a public road, you become a lot less safe. Not only from other drivers, but the police. All they have to do is pull you over, and if they don't like your face, pick a fight with you, pop your trunk and throw a bag of drugs in, or a crime weapon, a piece of paper with a death threat, anything. What are you going to do? Its your word against a police officer. He looks good. He just busted some punk drug dealer. You're denying everything. You look like a liar and someone wasting the juries time. They will fry you just as fast as a Witchhunt tribunal operating under the Maleus Malificarum "Hammer of the Witches" guidelines, rubberstamped deer in headlights innocent people right into the fire to their death. The crowd loved it. They love to see blood. - Error601, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2"Jordan said he repeatedly tried to explain to cops that they had the wrong guy, but they wouldn’t listen to him. "
Yea, they should have listened to him, because criminals always say, "yea, I'm the guy. I did it. You got me." - cactus476, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@ okie4life
Tell that to the police where I'm from. - simplejoe79, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2He is lucky he spent only 20 hours
- okie4life, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1live in hicksville. Even more reason why they wouldn't be able to process you through quickly. Don't have the resources.
- kidvicious1973, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1He did rear-end someone so its all good.
- meno911, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I just read the headline and nothing else. In Canada the cops can hold you for 24 hours without explanation. Deal.
- MarkOfTheDead, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1thanks for yours :)
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