Where's the logic/justice in this?

[Karma]

Court: Exonerated inmate doesn't get $14 million

WASHINGTON – An ideologically divided Supreme Court overturned a $14 million judgment given to a former death row inmate who was convicted of murder after New Orleans prosecutors withheld evidence in his trial.

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wow. so who protects people in our so called "fair" system from prosecutorial negligence and/or misconduct? and are the justices saying this man's life...which was taken away from him nearly PERMANENTLY (not counting the decades behind bars) is worth only $150,000? I mean...this is the kind of thing that really makes me scratch my head. what is the message here!?

and um...Clarence Thomas' credibility as being someone who can render rulings fair and balanced? give me fucking break. his credibility is shot and HE should be indicted for his own illegal activities and ethics charges but will that happen no. He'll continue to get over and hand out rulings like this to an innocent man whose life was RUINED. I'm glad Justice Ginsburg spoke out on this in ORAL (and not just written) dissent.

This is a damn shame.

What do you see in this?

 

[Clara Oswald]

I don't know the law of it I guess, but reading the sound byte seems to be a little misleading.

He was on death row because he was convicted of killing someone. Which was not the case in which prosecutors witheld evidence. In a prior case for armed robbery, the prosecutors did not turn over to the defense that the man's blood type did not match that found at the scene. The fact that the man had prior convictions at the time of the murder trial got him a tougher sentence, in this case the death penalty.

So it seems that the restitution should have been made solely for whatever time he did for the robbery case, not the time served on the murder charge. And he already was awarded the maximum restitution by the state of Louisiana.

 

[Rampage]

Actually, his rights were deprived in BOTH cases. The SCOTUS case was about the robbery trial and him being deprived of his Brady rights, but the DA also withheld evidence that, once uncovered, got him a new trial on the murder charge in WHICH HE WAS ACQUITTED.

Turns out this guy got convicted twice when he had committed no crime at all, and in both cases there was prosecutorial misconduct. And in exchange for 18 years of his life (14 on Death Row), he got 150K.

This is a travesty.

 

[Clara Oswald]

That wasn't in the article that I read.

He did get the maximum, so that's a different issue.

Did anyone find the court documents where the reasoning for overturning it is given? Other than that the prosecutors were untrained and so should have disclosed the evidence and didn't, but that the office isn't liable for the actions of the employees?

Is he going to sue the actual prosecutors now?