Posted on 12/17/2013 5:04:38 PM PST by OddLane
Eighty years -- that's about how long it took the state of Alabama to posthumously pardon the last three of nine men who were falsely accused and wrongly convicted of raping two white women on a train. They infamously were called the Scottsboro Boys, because the nine black men were just 12- to 19-years-old when they were arrested in 1931.
It turned out that the women, Ruby Bates and Victoria Price, had lied to police about the rapes. At one of the trials, Bates recanted her testimony, saying she had made it all up. Still, the all-white jury convicted the boys, one after another.
Forty-three years later, a similar story: This time it was Delbert Tibbs, who died recently of cancer. Tibbs spent nearly three years in prison in Florida after he was convicted in 1974 of a rape and murder that he had nothing to do with, according to the Florida Supreme Court.
Ancient history, you say? We've moved past those shameful days of unequal justice, you insist. Think again.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Yes.
Can George Zimmerman sue the media?
They should be dropped into a pot of pugi sticks and 2 gallons of scars dropped on them.
They should be sued for all they have and then and imprisoned.
Brawley, Duke LAX, so many others...
Of course the liars should be sued. They should have their wages garnished for the rest of their lives. If they marry, the husband’s wages should be garnished.
The low bar should be $10 million per accused person.
I think that they should be prosecuted.
A thousand times yes!
Perjury should be punished with imprisonment, not a civil suit. All perjury. Perjury in rape cases. Perjury before a senate committee.
Sued ? .... Yes
After they serve their prison sentence for their crime....
Yes. Absolutely.
Jail and monetary fines to the falsely accused.
Who could say no?
No, they should be jailed. The same sentence that the person they falsely accused got, or would have gotten if convicted.
False rape should receive a punishment similar to rape.
The Boogieman has got it right.
That’s: “two gallons of Scarabs dropped on them”
Fixed
They should be jailed.
Notable absence in the article, of falsely accused Whites.
Sued? no, incarcerated? yes. For a term equal to what the accused would face.
After the false accuser has been criminally charged with filing a false report/complaint, they should be subject to all manner of civil liability.
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