<story><title>Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two years</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/05/hawaii-mistaken-identity-arrest/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cududa</author><text>Wait to have your mind blown further. In Missouri if you’re exonerated for a crime via someone else pleading guilty, DNA, etc and have used up all your appeals you still have to serve out your sentence, even if it’s life in prison &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;why-are-wrongly-convicted-people-still-imprisoned-in-missouri&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;why-are-wrongly-convicted-peopl...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>opdahl</author><text>The last line in this article is the most insane one of them all.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; ... Bento, who did not respond to a request for comment, said officials in that office had instructed him not to hand over any documents related to Castleberry’s 2006 drug case, including all records filed after May 2017 that actually pertained to Spriestersbach.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Spriestersbach was not entitled to the documents, officials said.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;The reason: He was not the defendant in that case. He was not Thomas Castleberry.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;They are saying he is not allowed to get the documents for the case &lt;i&gt;which he was the main suspect and subsequently hospitalized for&lt;/i&gt; since the documents for the case is for the other person. Even though it happened to him and not the other person. I&amp;#x27;m dumbfounded.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hilbert42</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Right, it&amp;#x27;s outrageously absurd Moriarty asked, &amp;quot;How old was your daughter when you came in here?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Seven weeks old,&amp;quot; he replied.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;So, you&amp;#x27;ve missed watching her grow up?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Every bit of it.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;How old is she now?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;She just turned 43.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;But an apology, even from the prosecutor, is all he gets, Strickland is still in prison.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is fucking terrible.  It brought tears to my eyes as it&amp;#x27;s both horrific and so tragic. It&amp;#x27;s no wonder that much of the world looks on &lt;i&gt;American Justice&lt;/i&gt; with much askance and suspicion in that its implementation of &amp;#x27;justice&amp;#x27; is so hypocritically at odds with stated American values—and even the Constitution.  One wonders why so many American citizens actually tolerate this situation and do so little about it.&lt;p&gt;For heaven&amp;#x27;s sake why aren&amp;#x27;t people on the streets protesting for change?</text></comment>
<story><title>Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two years</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/05/hawaii-mistaken-identity-arrest/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cududa</author><text>Wait to have your mind blown further. In Missouri if you’re exonerated for a crime via someone else pleading guilty, DNA, etc and have used up all your appeals you still have to serve out your sentence, even if it’s life in prison &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;why-are-wrongly-convicted-people-still-imprisoned-in-missouri&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cbsnews.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;why-are-wrongly-convicted-peopl...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>opdahl</author><text>The last line in this article is the most insane one of them all.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; ... Bento, who did not respond to a request for comment, said officials in that office had instructed him not to hand over any documents related to Castleberry’s 2006 drug case, including all records filed after May 2017 that actually pertained to Spriestersbach.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Spriestersbach was not entitled to the documents, officials said.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;The reason: He was not the defendant in that case. He was not Thomas Castleberry.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;They are saying he is not allowed to get the documents for the case &lt;i&gt;which he was the main suspect and subsequently hospitalized for&lt;/i&gt; since the documents for the case is for the other person. Even though it happened to him and not the other person. I&amp;#x27;m dumbfounded.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>javiramos</author><text>Heartbreaking. The US criminal justice system is a shame.</text></comment>