Brickbat: Time Gone By

Glynn Simmons spent 48 years in an Oklahoma prison for the murder of a liquor store clerk killed during a robbery. But a judge ordered him freed last year, and, in a separate proceeding, declared him to be "actually innocent." His lawyers said detectives withheld a report saying that an eyewitness did not identify him as the killer in a lineup. That woman, who was shot in the head during the robbery, did identify at least five other men in different lineups. Simmons has now filed a federal lawsuit against the detectives and the departments they worked for.

Comments

[Adans smith]

All the money for the 'big guy' won't fix this.

[Stuck in California]

48 years?

I wonder what I'd be like if I filed said suits and was told I could not. 80 years old, a whole life stolen, no starting over. Not far from nothing left to lose. Add in genius scientist and that's like the background of a supervillain in a comic book right there.

[Michael Ejercito]

I wonder why that has not happened already, given over sixty to seventy centuries of recorded human history.

[Commenter_XY]

I wonder how old those detectives are.

Are they elderly, well meaning men, with poor memory?

[Rossami]

They withheld evidence. They may now be elderly and have poor memories but they were not "well-meaning".

[Inigo Montoya]

Ironically, any monetary judgment against them will come from tax payers and not them personally.

[SQRLSY One]

WHY is shit that Reason-Treason supports unjust trickery and putting people in jail for 48 years, arbitrarily?!?! HUNH?!?! It's merely because Glynn Simmons supports us ALWAYS sorely-abused-by-government conservatives, isn't it?!?!?! It is PURELY malicious anti-conservative asshole anal animus, ain't it-shit?!?!??!

(If'n ye make even a half-assed attempt to read between the lines of coke that the Reason-Treason writers snort while they write this crap, shit ALL becomes clear!!!)

[Fist of Etiquette]

Simmons has now filed a federal lawsuit against the detectives and the departments they worked for.

I. DECLARE. IMMUNITY!

Without QI we would see a dangerous chilling effect on expedient police work.

[Dillinger]

>>"actually innocent."

Jeebus. Millennial judges.

[LIBertrans]

Oklahoma, non-Aryan person... around there that's a speedy railroading and fast (compared to NEVER) correction of blatant injustice. All of this had to wait until the Staat of Oklahoma recognized the Libertarian party as as legitimate as the entrenched looter kleptocracy parties. Both events are harbingers of change, albeit on a geologic scale.