Say you were framed for a crime you never committed and the judge decided to throw the book at you and sentenced you to a life behind bars without the possibility of ever getting parole then how would you take it and what would you try and do about it?
Could you accept it and just sit back and be quiet while being left to rot in jail and go stir crazy?
2007-10-16 11:20:54 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Hey gone left how about a little education to show us exactly what a prison does to rehabilitate a guilty person! According to the Innocence Project at least 1% of the inmates in prison are TRULY INNOCENT. That is well over 20,000 people. Mind telling us what reform they get? Then you get the Joyce Gilchrist's of the so-called expert area that lie their butts off to get people convicted and cry that they are treated unfairly when the dam starts to falter on them. There is no telling how many people this woman convicted who are just finding the means to get it righted. I ran across a talk show the other day about a man who had been in for 18 or so years before he was proven innocent and the DA offered to let him take a plea and get out right then or he could take his chances in the same area where he was convicted the first time. The reason he was BLACKMAILED into this plea deal was so the state would not have to admit wrongdoing or have to pay him for the time they wrongfully imprisoned him. And you can bet that this would drive a person nutty just knowing how many LIARS had testified against him as self-proclaimed experts. The whole system is screwed up like polio. These cops, prosecutors, judges, and incompetent attorneys should be thrown in the prison to see exactly what they have done to that person. And this would lead someone like me to do something to make sure that these people were held to a higher standard that they claim to live by. WHAT A JOKE!!! There comes a time when a person in that position should be doing everything possible to show that the guilty lie in the courtroom as well as the one who actually did the crime!!!!
2007-10-17 09:09:24 · answer #1 · answered by pappyld04 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. I would not sit back and rot in jail.. I would try to get in touch with the Innocence Project now becoming a real possibility in the US, to help investigate and help free anyone who is truely innocent and has been sentenced to life or death. I know just about everyone in prison says "i'm innocent" but there are cases of truely innocent people who are the Wrong One and need DNA to prove them not guilty of the crime.. DNA is very expensive and most people in jail don't have the money to fund it. I don't feel too many juries make mistakes, or judges, but yes, it can and does happen.. A tragedy. But, if I couldn't get anyone to look at my case and help, then what alternative would I have? Other than try suicide. I would have to be in that spot to actually know what I would do. I hope I NEVER have to!
2007-10-16 18:36:13 · answer #2 · answered by Joanie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Under no circumstances whatsoever would I ever plead guilty to a crime I knew I did not commit. There're too many cases where years down the road evidence arises exonerating person, but since they pled guilty, they could not be freed.
2007-10-17 01:43:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No Way!
I would call Innocence Project. Barry Scheck and his partner
have started a firm that investigates cases like that. They have managed to free a good number of innocent people from jail by their proof involving DNA, etc.
He is the attorney that helped free OJ Simpson on DNA. evidence.
I would also call Alan Dershewitz who is a law professor at Harvard law school and ask him and his class to file an appeal for me. That is what Claus Von Bulow did and the whole class worked on the appeal and got him off. He is a free man today.
I would fight it until I got free!!
2007-10-16 18:36:11 · answer #4 · answered by mary 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Pray to God some great big peice of information comes in before they lock the door.
2007-10-16 21:04:43 · answer #5 · answered by scooter 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would contact every possible person to help prove my innocence
2007-10-16 18:35:13 · answer #6 · answered by JOHN 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Say that you were guilty,and nobody believed you.All the inmates I have known,were innocent.
2007-10-16 21:41:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Which is exactly why I'm against the Death Penalty. How many INNOCENT people have the States murdered???
2007-10-16 18:28:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Well if you had money, you could hire Barry Scheck to help you out.
2007-10-16 18:32:58 · answer #9 · answered by Bubba 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's always the media. Ofcourse, nobody would believe that I was innocent though!
2007-10-16 18:27:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋