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Update: NYC Teen who was jailed 3 years without trial, 2 in solitary kills self
Posted on 10/1/14 at 12:12 pm
Posted on 10/1/14 at 12:12 pm
New Yorker Magazine
Gothamist
In other words, prosecutors kept him in jail pretrial until he could get out for time served- if he plead guilty. This story is all kinds of fricked up.
ETA- UPDATE- Browser has committed suicide after getting out of jail. Terrible.
LINK
Gothamist
quote:
Browder was finally released in May 2013, after the Bronx District Attorney's office dismissed his case due to lack of evidence. During his time at Rikers' Robert N. Davoren Complex (RNDC), Browder spent a considerable amount of time in solitary confinement and became suicidal; since his release, he has been hospitalized in a psychiatric ward and had significant difficulty finding employment
quote:
For a defendant who is in jail, the more a case drags on the greater the pressure to give up and plead guilty. By early 2012, prosecutors had offered Browder a deal—three and a half years in prison in exchange for a guilty plea. He refused. “I want to go to trial,” he told O’Meara, even though he knew that if he lost he could get up to fifteen years in state prison.
In other words, prosecutors kept him in jail pretrial until he could get out for time served- if he plead guilty. This story is all kinds of fricked up.
ETA- UPDATE- Browser has committed suicide after getting out of jail. Terrible.
LINK
This post was edited on 6/8/15 at 1:57 pm
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Posted on 10/1/14 at 12:13 pm to NYNolaguy1
Trust me, we don't have a prison complex, these people deserve this kind of thing.
This post was edited on 10/1/14 at 12:15 pm
Posted on 10/1/14 at 12:14 pm to NYNolaguy1
sounds like a big pay day for the teen and a lawyer
Posted on 10/1/14 at 12:14 pm to NYNolaguy1
looks like he is guilty of something
Posted on 10/1/14 at 12:15 pm to NYNolaguy1
Really fricked up that the 6th amendment has been thrown out. Is the prosecutor going to face charges for denying him his right?
Posted on 10/1/14 at 12:23 pm to NYNolaguy1
So much for a speedy trial.
Posted on 10/1/14 at 12:50 pm to NYNolaguy1
If you've ever been in jail, you'd know this happens a lot more frequently than people think. Most of the time, the punishment for pleading guilty is less than the time someone would spend in jail fighting the charges, so most people just plead guilty if they can't bond out
There are a few other TD'ers that can attest to this also
There are a few other TD'ers that can attest to this also
This post was edited on 10/1/14 at 12:52 pm
Posted on 6/8/15 at 1:19 pm to NYNolaguy1
Very sad bump: the young man committed suicide.
LINK
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Last Monday, Prestia, who had filed a lawsuit on Browder’s behalf against the city, noticed that Browder had put up a couple of odd posts on Facebook. When Prestia sent him a text message, asking what was going on, Browder insisted he was O.K. “Are you sure everything is cool?” Prestia wrote. Browder replied: “Yea I’m alright thanks man.” The two spoke on Wednesday, and Browder did seem fine. On Saturday afternoon, Prestia got a call from Browder’s mother: he had committed suicide.
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Posted on 6/8/15 at 1:43 pm to NYNolaguy1
NYC gives zero fricks about "your rights", yet it is held up as a bright, shining liberal star.
Low crime at the expense of effing you over, especially if you are a minority.
Low crime at the expense of effing you over, especially if you are a minority.
Posted on 6/8/15 at 1:52 pm to NYNolaguy1
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Browder had already had a few run-ins with the police, including an incident eight months earlier, when an officer reported seeing him take a delivery truck for a joyride and crash into a parked car. Browder was charged with grand larceny. He told me that his friends drove the truck and that he had only watched, but he figured that he had no defense, and so he pleaded guilty. The judge gave him probation and “youthful offender” status, which insured that he wouldn’t have a criminal record.
Sounds like his three years was the legal version of a referee's "make up call."
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