Punishing a person for protecting themselves in a violent hell-hole that she would not have been in if she hadn't been put there wrongly by the state is seriously fucked up. She almost has a case for entrapment. If the state had not put her in prison, she would not have had the means, the motive, nor the opportunity to commit the crime. And since she was wrongly put there, the state should be liable for any crimes committed.
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I think that attorney general should have to walk in her shoes for a bit and then have someone hold up his release
Rarely does one ascend to positions of profound influence with the capacity for empathy.
That’s entirely too logical. Repubs hate their constituents. They hate women. He’s (AG) doing the only thing he knows how: punishing someone weaker than him.
Keeping people proven innocent in prison should be a massively punishable offence
massively punishable offense
Hear, hear.
Everyone involved in blocking or preventing her release should get prison time and lifetime ban from working in legal, law enforcement, public service.
Man, we can't even convict an ex-president for all the crimes he committed while in office. I have little hope in any justice these days.
It's like some people wake up in the morning and ask themselves "How can I be the worst person?"
Sadly for the rest of us, the answer to that question one day was "run for office"
Bailey, who was appointed attorney general ... has a history of opposing overturning convictions, even when local prosecutors cite evidence of actual innocence.
In 2023, Bailey’s office argued against then-St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s effort to overturn the murder conviction of Lamar Johnson, who was imprisoned 28 years. A St. Louis judge sided with Johnson, who was freed.
Bailey’s office also argued in court in May against freeing Christopher Dunn, who has spent 33 years in prison for a 1990 killing that St. Louis Circuit Attorney Gabe Gore determined that Dunn probably didn’t commit. A judge is still deciding that case.
And Bailey is opposing St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell’s effort to set aside the murder conviction of Marcellus Williams. A hearing is Aug. 21 — just a month before Williams is scheduled to be executed. Testing unavailable at the time of the 1998 stabbing death found another person’s DNA on the knife, but not Williams’.
I would love to hear his justification for all of these. Is it just the for-profit prison money, or the pride of not being wrong?
Or he could just be an asshole.
Why not all three. An asshole who can't be wrong and enjoys getting kick backs from for profit prisons.
All the above
Why not both?
Just bc you didn't commit a crime doesn't mean you are free. - Supreme court
I don't know why you are criticizing the supreme Court here. They sided with them too. It's the AG who should be the target of public ire.
Prisons for profit is the entire problem.
In this case they are easy to appease. Just replace the woman the courts have ordered to be set free with the attorney general. They can even charge more since the piece of shit will need special accommodations.
Slavery is alive and well.
Looks like she is out now! Yay!
The frayed edge of our government...
What are you in for? Resisting arrest…