Ok...23 years of his life taken from him. Someone please tell me if he can sue the state of walk off with SOME compensation. There's gotta be a good ending to this...

After 23 years in Prison ... "Sir, you are free, you may go,"

That is what I call Justice ...
The Man lost all of his life, but now you are free, be proud and feel well (!)

The question is will he receive any compensation for all the years behind bars?
He would probably have to hire pro-bono lawyers or work under a contingency basis, on this new uphill battle to collect moneys, from the city. On other more public cases, the city has paid up after lengthy court battles, intimidation and harassment.
This case is a good argument against death sentencing, where there is no recourse or amends.

At least he wasn't in DR where he would have been shot on the spot!

That is why I am against the salvage and brutal death sentence, which is final and absolute.

Thanks Josean for keeping your stance (!)

BTW: we are going to implement a Guantanamo one over here. LOL

tschotschua
Under Trujillo the DR had their own Guantanamo, which was Saona island, where the despot sent political prisoners, to die from lack of food and water.
Saona island is just too pretty to be used for that purpose alone, but I am sure in the Azua desert, a more apropo jail could be built, to house our many future jail prospects, lol.

General, at those times there was as you know very well "El Sisal" en Azua, where if the heat of the burning sun didn't kill you it was carried out by the Guazabara Thorns (!) LOL

Tschotshua
I was just thinking about the Azua Guazabara spines, that sting like bee bites, as punishment to send our dishonest politicians running naked in moonless nights, lol.

It was New York.

Have they ever gotten anything right in the last 50 years? It even took a Ship Builder from Tampa to fix the Yankees.

Cuban Bull Shit from Alpha 66 as always:

George Michael Steinbrenner III

Born on July 4, 1930 in Rocky River, Ohio, U.S.


wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Steinbrenner

I wonder if he was in any drug gang over there ..or was he totally non involved in the events

This is why it's better to involve a criminal in a shootout. An innocent person would not shoot back, they would just come out with their hands up, cautiously.

Stand back everyone. Josie has discovered Wikipedia. The go to source for the lazy and ignorant

FYI I didn't say that George Steinbrenner was born in Tampa. I said he was from Tampa. Mr. Stainbrenner was based and maintained a residence in Tampa from the 1960s until his death in 2010

The Clinton-esque Alpha 66; "Depending on what the meaning of is, is!

Well General,

Things had changed by now, El Sisal has been developed to a very important productive zone, the project was developed using Israelis Irrigation Technologies and there are growing all kind of crops.

But still we have a very good place for all of the corrupts over there;
La Fortaleza del 15, it was closed a lot of years ago cuz it was considered a curse not just for the inmates but also for the military and the administrative personnel, 50 degree under shadow. Perhaps we can contemplate the idea of reopening it once again. LOL

From the picture he looks emotionless. If it were me, I would have been ecstatic.
Guillermo (William) Lopez should have been given a break and pronounced innocent from day one.
Anybody with a name of Guillermone has got to be innocent. Don't they know that?

I have not met a William I did not like. Next time around they are going to think twice before they attempt to convict a Bill. Was not Bill Clinton innocent? Don't you recall: "I did not have sex with that women."

Nevertheless, this case is a good example of why the death penalty is not a good idea. Imagine getting the electric chair for something you did not do. Man that really SUCKS.

Either way his life has been ruin. That is what you call a good example of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Nevertheless, I just wonder what was his actual involvement in the incident. Yes he did not commit a murder, but what was he doing there? Unfortunately, I do not know the background of the case, but would like to know.

Guille,

that is not the point, you can be a criminal but you can't be convicted for a crime that you did not commit or are not responsible of.

Other crimes must be proven in the first place (!)

".....that is not the point, "

True.......but I just wanted to emphasize that although he did not commit the crime, he was not necessarily an Angel or totally free of at least some form of guilt in one way or another. I would feel more sorry for a guy who I knew is a law abiding citizen, that goes to work everyday to earn a living but one day is unjustly accused of a crime he did not commit and to make matters worse spend 23 years behind bars. Yes, it was wrong for what they did to the "poor" guy but perhaps he was not as "innocent" as we think.

Lets just say he paid for the many other crimes he never got caught doing and got away with, so now we are even stevens. Is he and should he be entitled to compensation? Absolutely.....
But it does not take away time lost, 23 years is something you can never recover.

so guillermone...you have never met a William that you have not liked..and like wise I have never met a Richard who was not almost perfect so can we just assume that if the world was full of Williams and Richards , it would be a far better place .

@Ricardolito...............YES...............LOL

generoso,
states
"This case is a good argument against death sentencing, where there is no recourse or amends."
I agree.
It is the only argument I see against capital punishment for serious repeat offenders like serial killers, unless it can be proven absolutely, and I'm not sure if that is possible.

Ricky,
Have you ever met a "Wayne" that wasn't a dick-head"? (Apologies to all the Waynes I have never met)

says the gusano

Written by: anthonyC, 24 Jan 2013 1:06 PM
From: United States


It was New York.

Have they ever gotten anything right in the last 50 years? It even took a Ship Builder from Tampa to fix the Yankees.

is Tampa still on the map of the US?

Written by: tschotschua, 24 Jan 2013 11:26 AM
From: Germany, Koblenz, Rheinland-Pfalz
After 23 years in Prison ... "Sir, you are free, you may go,"

That is what I call Justice ...
The Man lost all of his life, but now you are free, be proud and feel well (!)
IN ANY COUNTRY THE JUDGE IN THIS CASE DOES NOT AWARD ANY MONEY TO THIS PERSON.. U KNOW HE NEEDS TO GET AND ATTORNEY AND FILE SUIT......
GUESS THIS DOESNT HAPPEN IN GERMANY DOES IT?

It was New York.

Have they ever gotten anything right in the last 50 years? It even took a Ship Builder from Tampa to fix the Yankees.

is Tampa still on the map of the US?
MAN THEY MOST RIGHT... JUST LOOK AT RIKERS ISLAND WHOS THE BOSS OVER THERE? COME ON GUY U KNOW WHO IS THE CAUSE OF MOST OF THE CRIME IN THE STATES... THE ANSWER IS THE DOMINICANS...
AND THE WORLD-FAMOUS PETER LUGER WHO IS IN BUSINESS FOR OVER 100 YEARS IS NOT AS U CALLED IT OVER RATED......AND IAM NOT TRAVLING TO JAPAN FOR THEIR STEAK.....{PEOPLE COME FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD TO TRY THEIR STEAK.....

u guys speak about others and what they do wrong?

look at your police force and take a long look...
u have no police force u have no army... what u have is a bunch of crooks that go out each and evry day to bring their own crime wave to the people of the dr....
and u speak and critize others?
best system in the world fools.....
take a ride on the choo choo train.
go get some world-famous dominican salami to eat..... and then go to see the dominican nanny who killed two little innocent kids a few months ago in new york city guess shes also innocent......

u guys cant get people to stop on the red .. can u? and man their are only a few lights in the whole wild-west country....
run them over and run thats the game in the dr....
give the young ladies a baby and run some more....
morew then one and half million very young girls in the dr with out a father to support them and their baby.
and now the good news we have people that are very high up in the government who have 111-12y old girlf friends....
so if your new on this site and read the bullshit they wright.
one can compare the dr with the congo

this case is a good argument against death sentencing, where there is no recourse or amends."
i agree.
hang them high the low-lifes this is my argument...
take the dominican nanny who killed two little kids in new york city. 2-5y olds.....
argument my a.......
not only dominican low-lifes all low-lifes hang them high like the dominicans lynch the haitians..... u know the very bad haitians who worked their ass off for pennies....the hard working haitians who u had to lynch u know why? because your low-lifes....
low.-lifes who now have a choo choo train to play with and few blues malls.......
all aboard.

any way low-lifes let me go..... iam going to perter luger the over rated steak hose in brooklyn......
choo choo
all aboard the choo choo express going to the over rated steak house...... guess its been over rated for over 100 years???

american pedophile caught in puerto plata gets 34 years in the pen

was not on line for a few days and miss this story in this paper........
so u want justice?... they got this low----life.......
but the dominican guy in puerto plats that was bringing him the very young dominican kids for this low-life [they say hes hiding up in some campo}..... the police did nothing about this guy?... they did hold his mother {great mother for one to have} for 6 months... they found her in a apt with many dominicans kids..... she was like the den mother for them.
justice in the dr?...... bullshit......
this guy brought kids for this guy for a very long time.......
in the states he would have gotten many years in jail for this crime....
as i said many times nothing happens in the dr for gringos unless one dominican is involved.....shoe shine my a.......s........

Gen, it depend on the state as fas as compensation is concern. Some states do and some do not. I am incline to say NY does not.

Read T.J. English's excellent book called, The Savage City, and you'll find the case of one George Whitmore Jr. George was a 19 year old near-blind destitute who was framed for the infamous Career Girl Murders and several other crimes during the 1960s. After many years in jail, and having his case against the City of New York for improper arrest and malicious prosecution dismissed by one judge, he finally won on appeal in 1982 and received $560,000 in a settlement with the city.

He lost it all by the 1990s.

Dominican Guillermo López (William) should get himself a good lawyer and seek some monetary settlement with the city.

NYC does compensate victims of wrongful prosecution, depending upon the nature of the court proceedings

Wrongful Conviction, Unequal Compensation

Published: July 15, 2009 at 2:06 pm

By Clark Merrefield

In March 1996, a bodega clerk scanned a lineup of suspects at a police station in Astoria, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. Two armed men in ski masks had robbed his nearby store. The clerk recalled glimpses of light black skin behind one mask, though he hadn’t seen either robber’s face.

He picked out John Scott, a construction worker. Scott later testified he was nowhere near the store. The clerk conceded at trial he was uncertain Scott was one of the robbers. Despite the clerk’s reversal, Scott was sentenced to 25 years in jail.

Scott languished in jail four years before an appeals court threw out the conviction.

For his troubles, Scott sued the state under a special law for those wrongfully convicted—a statute written to fulfill a “moral demand” to compensate those who needlessly lost years of their lives behind bars.

It took Scott 6 years to prevail under the law after he was released. He got $25,000 in compensation for each year he lost in jail.

A review by the New York City News Service shows that the state’s legal system shortchanged Scott and that there is a wide disparity in payments for the wrongfully convicted.

In the past ten years, 22 people have been compensated under the state’s law. Lawyers who have handled multiple cases in the system said they believed it doled out payments at an even rate.


Scott then made a wrongful imprisonment compensation claim, something that is possible in 26 states.

“The whole reason that this wrongful conviction statute was enacted in New York was to try to make it quicker and easier, and more certain, for people who it’s quite clear have been wrongfully convicted, and have been exonerated, to get some money,” said Adele Bernhard, a law professor at Pace University who has studied New York’s wrongful conviction compensation statute.

Under the statute a judge reads the facts in the case and, if the lawsuit is appealed by the state—many are—the judge determines whether the facts fit the law’s criteria. If it does, the state tends to settle the claim rather than proceed with a potentially lengthy trial.

In Scott’s case, instead of going to trial, the sides settled for $100,000—an average of $25,000 for every year Scott spent in jail.

Bernard and other attorneys said that while the state law has no explicit provision for evenhanded payments, considering such factors as a person’s income and potential career trajectory, they believe the payments have been about the same—around $100,000 per year of incarceration.

But at $25,000 per year incarcerated, Scott got one of the lowest average payouts in the past ten years.

James O’Donnell, for instance, was wrongfully convicted in the late 1990s of sodomy and spent two years in jail, half the time of Scott.

Yet in 2006 he settled to get $150,000 for each year in jail.

Robert McLaughlin, wrongfully convicted of murder and robbery in 1981, spent six years in jail before he was exonerated. In 1989 he was awarded $1.9 million—more than $300,000 per year he spent in jail.

Settling out of court tends to result in slightly less money. Settlements resulted in a median of about $82,000 per year of incarceration for the 29 cases in which the number of years the wrongfully convicted person spent in jail could be determined.

BIRTH OF A WRONGFUL CONVICTION LAW

Before 1984, most wrongful conviction claims were nearly impossible to secure. They required special legislation signed by the governor. From 1947 to 1984, five wrongfully convicted people received awards from the state, ranging from $7,000 to $1 million.

Then came the case of Isidore Zimmerman, which captured headlines and spurred public debate.

Read the rest:

219mag.com/2009/07/15/wrongful-conviction-unfair-compensation/

Let's hope mister Lopez will adequately compensated and properly manage any remitance receive!!

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Be careful,Jambdebois is Haitian and defends his people.

On the other hand,you put Haitians to shame.
You owe him respect.

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BlogCaca,
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You insignificant beings can only espouse hatred and biased generalizations as if your people are that much more enlightened. You guys are part of the problem, and you offer no positive contribution. Why do you continue to engage us if you both feel as you do?