Wrongly convicted ... served years ... exonerated ... stuck in jail

[MU82]

This is an infuriating story.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-are-wrongly-convicted-people-still-imprisoned-in-missouri/

Two men in Missouri were convicted for crimes they didn't commit and sent to prison for dozens of years.

Even though they ended up being exonerated, they can't get out of jail because both men had run out of appeals. And the Missouri Supreme Court ruled these innocent men must stay in prison, saying: "This case is not about whether (the wrongly convicted people are) innocent ... This case presents only the issue of whether there is any authority to appeal ... No such authority exists."

Un-freakin'-real.

[Galway Eagle]

I feel gross that I'm in Missouri while reading this.

[naginiF]

I feel gross that I'm in Missouri while reading this.

Try living here.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

This is an infuriating story.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-are-wrongly-convicted-people-still-imprisoned-in-missouri/

Two men in Missouri were convicted for crimes they didn't commit and sent to prison for dozens of years.

Even though they ended up being exonerated, they can't get out of jail because both men had run out of appeals. And the Missouri Supreme Court ruled these innocent men must stay in prison, saying: "This case is not about whether (the wrongly convicted people are) innocent ... This case presents only the issue of whether there is any authority to appeal ... No such authority exists."

Un-freakin'-real.

Governor or Presidential Pardon?

[Jockey]

Governor or Presidential Pardon?

It's not Federal.

Governor said he doesn't have time. Too busy telling people not to get vaccinated.

[naginiF]

It's not Federal.

Governor said he doesn't have time. Too busy telling people not to get vaccinated.

This is not hyperbole at all.

One guess as to why he and his constituents don't care.

[Jockey]

This is not hyperbole at all.

One guess as to why he and his constituents don't care.

Yeah. It wasn't sarcasm. He actually said he didn't have time.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Missouri used to be a swing state. Then fundamental religion crept up the Mississippi and now you have the Mid-Central States iteration of Alabama. Iowa is well on its way as well.

[MU82]

One guess as to why he and his constituents don't care.

Yep.

It's yet another example of the systemic racism in our legal justice system. Either or both of these innocent men probably wouldn't have been convicted in the first place had any number of things gone their way. For example:

1. If they had the money to hire good attorneys.

2. If they were actually assumed innocent, as the Constitution says they should have been, rather than assumed guilty because of their race.

3. If the district attorney had been more interested in the truth than in getting speedy convictions against the mean black men.

4. If all lives actually mattered to people in power who claim that's the case; these men were simply thrown in the trash by the system -- and the system is STILL dumping on them, even though they've been exonerated.

We here (including me) get outraged at all kinds of things, including some that really aren't that outrageous. But this is truly outrageous. All Americans should be outraged by it. It's disgusting the way these men's lives were thrown away.

[Hards Alumni]

This is an infuriating story.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-are-wrongly-convicted-people-still-imprisoned-in-missouri/

Two men in Missouri were convicted for crimes they didn't commit and sent to prison for dozens of years.

Even though they ended up being exonerated, they can't get out of jail because both men had run out of appeals. And the Missouri Supreme Court ruled these innocent men must stay in prison, saying: "This case is not about whether (the wrongly convicted people are) innocent ... This case presents only the issue of whether there is any authority to appeal ... No such authority exists."

Un-freakin'-real.

T.I.A.

Happens every day.

[MU82]

Happens every day.

And that's the effen outrage.