When the only way to go free is to plead guilty

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there's the old saying; you want justice? go to a whorehouse. you wanna get screwed? go to court! I've been telling people for decades that prosecutors, nationally, have OVER a 95% conviction rate. how is that possible? its through the scam of plea bargains. they kidnap innocent people, torture them for months and offer a deal that if they plead guilty to a lesser charge they aren't guilty of they can go free! and that's precisely what happened to me. even the arresting cop said I should've never been ...

blackops2096 I agree with you that thompson did things wrong things that make my blood boil. But the system knew what he was doing and they went along with his lies. God only knows what was going on in his life at the time but it must have been messed up for him to do such a thing. He was a messed up man when he destroyed both their lives. The system and courts are there because they are not supposed to be messed up but when the system knows that a man is lying to get money and they turn a blind eye a...

How scary that you can lose so much time from your life for something you had nothing to do with, I felt really bad for Owens. I hope he gets compensated for the life he lost.

nobody can compensate his time, his life and what he had to pass trough

He's getting 9 million! It won't take back the years he's lost but hopefully, he uses it to found his program for innocent prisoners.

Screw Thompson. He got himself in the situation by criminally misleading the original investigators and implicating an innocent man for murder in order to get $1000... anyone who says he's over-punished for "a simple lie" and/or "we all lie" is extremely misguided. Think about this, if you spent two decades in prison for someone's "simple lie" would you feel they should be given any leeway?

lying isn't a felony, and he doesn't seem to be the sharpest tool in the shed. the detectives and prosecutors used, mislead, and tricked a man that knew no better, just so they could get out of actually doing their job and finding the real murderer.

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Am I supposed to feel sorry for Thompson? Because I do not.Feel bad for Owens, though.

probably Thompson is the real culprit, thats the main reason he lied

+Yaria Samavan Carlan well 21 years plus not being able to life a normal life is a bit to much for a lie don't you think so?

He's annoyed they never caught the real murderer, when in reality his lie is probably the biggest reason they never did. I do feel really sorry for Owens, but the other guy went to jail while trying to incriminate his totally innocent friend and make a quick buck. While also letting a real murderer get away. Don't get me wrong the police should have done a better job, but that doesn't absolve him.

Snitches get stitches lying snitches get beat to death in the biblical sense

ChrisFarmer in another case I agree with you. This freaking idiot went and manufactured evidence and motives he told several different stories to the police to implicate his friend. He’s almost an eyeball witness. I believe we get older and learn from our mistakes. This guy in a fit of rage tried to have someone else imprisoned.

the real murderer is laughing their socks off. can you imagine doing something so terrible, and 2 other people take the blame! and it all started over a 1000 dollar reward

Beach Looking Guy yeah. Someone who had nothing to do with anything. A stranger who pops out of the blue and takes the fall for you

Yeah, it's so tragic. Honestly, it might even be a flaw in the system itself, and this is why a lot of people, including myself are skeptical of government/police investigations or any sort of "ads" that might offer a reward. It feels like you are forfeiting your privacy and rights if you get involved.(Like how there might be scam artists who might get you to sign a deal, and thus losing your rights unknowingly... until it's too late.)

SO basically, an Alfred Plea is a manipulation of the system by which the State gets to save face and technically keep a win on the books by telling a wrongfully convicted man that we will free you right now if you plead guilty and give us a win on the books, else face years more in jail while your trail happens, and the crime in question remains unsolved in reality. That seems to be like textbook case of corrupting a system by designing loopholes that hides the State's mistakes and allows crimes to go...

The Alfred please sums up alot of what is wrong with the US judicial system

It also works the other way around. The original Alford guy did commit the crime he was charged with, and there was irrefutable evidence, but he pleaded guilty to a lesser crime to avoid the death penalty. A more recent example is the DaddyOFive couple, who should've faced jail time for child abuse, but are just on probation.

Owens better get MILLIONS not a couple hundred thousand.

Owens received $9 MILLION in settlement from the city of Baltimore!

Happy he is apologetic towards Owens, but what about the family of the victim? He basically robbed them of justice over $1k.

Sorry works for spills on carpet, not for throwing another person's life away!