Robert DuBoise, sentenced over a 1983 rape and murder he did not commit, says he hopes others in his position now ‘get justice’
A Tampa, Florida, man who has been authorized to receive $14m for spending nearly four decades in prison over a rape and murder which he did not commit says he hopes his case makes it easier for the unjustly convicted to achieve justice before it’s too late for them.
“I’m just grateful,” Robert DuBoise told the New York Times of the compensation that Tampa’s city council voted to pay him to settle a lawsuit over his wrongful conviction. He said he hoped others in his position now “get justice and can move on without having to spend the rest of their life fighting the system that has already wronged them”.
DuBoise was 18 at the time that 19-year-old Barbara Grams was raped and beaten to death as she walked home from her Tampa restaurant job in August 1983. A medical examiner determined that someone had bitten Grams on one of her cheeks, prompting investigators to take bite samples from multiple men, including DuBoise.
“Mark Zuckerberg made more than $28 billion this morning after Meta stock makes record surge” https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/02/business/meta-stock-surge-mark-zuckerberg/index.html
seems fair.
…your poster child for trickle-down economics. /s
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He didn’t make money, his net worth went up.
Also, how is that related to this in ANY way
Zuckerberg made 2,000 times more in one morning for doing basically nothing, vs. what DuBoise made in almost four decades in a settlement for a wrongful conviction and imprisonment.
It’s pretty easy to grasp if you don’t overthink it.
He built a successful company, that’s what he did :)
But still, it doesn’t matter, sucks that it happened to the lad, but comparing him to Zuckerberg doesn’t do absolutely anything for him, it’s completely unrelated to his case.
comparing him to Zuckerberg doesn’t do absolutely anything for him, it’s completely unrelated to his case.
Again, it doesn’t do him any favors.
If you want to push your agenda, that’s fine, but piggybacking off of a ruined life (in quite exceptional circumstances all things considered) doesn’t do absolutely anything.
What’s the point? Should the guy have gotten more? He can live like a king without a care for the rest of his life. If he has children, those can, too.
Or is it that Zuckerberg shouldn’t be “allowed” to own his own company, which coincidentally is pretty successful?
Because if it’s the latter, it’s unrelated to this specific person, you could post it under a cute kitty vid and it’d have the same value.
He can easily get a low interest loan on that new worth going up.
Is he actually gonna get it or is there gonna be an appeal where he’s dragged through the courts again for years and only awarded $500k after being forced to pay $10 million in legal fees?
It’s a settlement, which means the city agreed to pay the $14,000,000 instead of going to trial and risk a verdict of a much higher amount. So no there won’t be any appeals and he should see the money.
Just a forty year whoopsie daisy.
This story is like male disposability meets eminent domain.
“Meh, he was compensated for his time”
Your tax dollars at work /s
Not to mention the tax dollars spent to house and feed an innocent man. And the salaries of the lawyers and cops involved to get him there.
says he hopes others in his position now ‘get justice’
Hopefully this includes Tommy Zeigler.
reads the headline without context
Reality TV is going too far these days if you ask me…
How the fuck is money gonna fix this?
All prisons must go. Its inhumane to incarcerate people.
This is 'Murica, you damned commie! MONEY IS EVERYTHING!
