Posted on 05/17/2007 6:10:58 PM PDT by Graybeard58
Well, because taxpayers, or at least their agent, wrongly imprisoned him for 18 years. How do you value 18 years either way?
Then why do we pay enlistment and re-enlistment bonuses? If some aren't doing it for the money, then they would enlist or re-enlist without the bonus. The fact that it takes a bonus to increase the rates of elistment/re-enlistment indicates that the money is a factor for some people to enlist/re-enlist.
That's the only monkey in the works. I'd only do it if I knew for certain the outcome. Still, I think $5 million is excessive. He's not the only one ever falsely imprisoned for 18 years, but so far he's the only one to receive that kind of money for it.
Ok, so give him $20 million, with such a rationale. CT taxpayers didn't wrongly imprison him. The City of Hartford, prosecutor and jury did. CT does not have counties. I see no reason this should come out of general state revenues. Also, DNA techniques were lousy back then and are much improved now, so is it fair to say they bungled it so badly?
Because he was prosecuted by the PEOPLE OF CT!
In other words, the General State resources were used to convict him on behalf of the citizens of the State.
Man wrongly jailed for three years charged £7,000 by Home Office for 'board and lodging'
Wrongly jailed after a woman cried rape, Warren Blackwell applied for compensation for his three wasted years in prison.Torn from his family and sent to languish in jail as a convicted sex attacker, the innocent father-of-two imagined he was due a hefty sum for the miscarriage of justice.
Instead, he was flabbergasted to learn the Home Office now intends to charge him nearly £7,000 for "board and lodging".
FreedomCalls has stated his price for his Freedom and it is 23k a month.
That is very low price not to have been with your wife, kids, grandkids or even having the chance to bring new children into this world.
But now that you have agreed on a price for 18 years of Freedom would you do 18 years in prison for $3,000,000?
Seems a bit excessive to me. I’d do 18 years in prison for a guarantee of $5 million — that’s $278,000 a year, or $23,000 a month, or $5,342 a week, or $133 an hour for a 40-hour work week or $32 an hour for every actual hour he was incarcerated. I’m sure others would too if it were offered at that rate. Our soldiers in Iraq offer their lives for a lot less after all — though most don’t do it for the money alone of course.
You must be kidding. I would definitely not do it for five million. Yes I have been to Iraq but for six months at a time. I know they are longer now, but still you had some freedoms. I have been in 20 years and seems like a long time. I just hear to many horror stories about jail. Have you ever seen that show OZ? Yieks! I saw one episode almost by accident...no thank you.
The dead have no freedoms. On Memorial Day at least of all days, you should recognize that a lot of good men gave their lives so you could be free. They willingly gave up not 18 years of imprisonment, but their lives.
Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
WTF!
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