Man exonerated after being framed by cop and spending 21 years in jail

[AthenaAwakened]

Derrick Hamilton, 49, was convicted of the 1991 murder of Nathaniel Cash — even though he had nothing to do with it.

Although Hamilton was paroled in 2011, he has only just now been exonerated of the crime. “One day in prison is too much for an innocent man. [Today is] exhilarating. It’s a grateful day,” he said.

Hamilton says he was framed by the embattled retired NYPD detective Louis Scarcella, who intimidated a woman into believing that she had seen Hamilton shoot her boyfriend.

http://thegrio.com/2015/01/10/man-exonerated-framed-by-police/

And it seems this maybe just the tip of the iceberg.

By all accounts, the former NYPD detective is a bad man who helped put innocent people behind bars for decades, used phony witnesses to get the job done, and even beating some suspects into false confessions. And he is costing the city millions of dollars. You know you’re bad when you have a reputation among prisoners for being crooked, or when the district attorney begs the judge to throw out the convictions of people you arrested.

http://thegrio.com/2015/01/14/louis-scarcella-nypd-wrongful-convictions/

 

[Medicine Man]

http://thegrio.com/2015/01/10/man-exonerated-framed-by-police/

And it seems this maybe just the tip of the iceberg.​

Isn't THAT the Truth??!!!​

SAVED!!!!
(...By those "unlimited"-appeals.)

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[repoman]

Scarcella is scum. he should be put into a supermax solitary until he dies.

His family should not get his pension - let other cops pass around a collection plate for them. He needs to be an example.

 

[arkirk]

Scarcella is scum. he should be put into a supermax solitary until he dies.

His family should not get his pension - let other cops pass around a collection plate for them. He needs to be an example.

At the bottom of this bag of worms is a system with a philosophy that people should be treated like you suggest for Scarcella in the first place. Hamilton was an "example." Get it? The most heinous of criminals operate on a philosophical system that is shot through with errors. Our penal institutions are not far behind the criminals in their error rate. The more gross the insult or assault or deception, the greater the consequence of the error. As soon as we allow notions of retribution to permeate and dominate the criminal justice system, we get one like our current one with lots of Hamiltons...and Scarcellas.

 

[bilby]

See, this sort of thing would never happen if you had capital punishment.

 

[AthenaAwakened]

See, this sort of thing would never happen if you had capital punishment.

We do

We reserve it for people with toy guns and those standing or walking in public places