Mr X sentenced to death;He is convicted;but found later he was innocent.What does our law (US) say about this?
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The judge did not commit a crime.  He did the job he was paid to do and did it in good faith.\n\nThe victim will have to seek compensation, usually through legal action.
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The suspect is presumed innocent until proved guilty.
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no thats a mistrial..double jeopardy would be if he was found not guilty....they could never trie him again for the same crime.
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He was proved innocent in a court of law.  Why would you hang and innocent person.\n\nCoach
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No he is still in prison, he was just sentenced to death.  It hasnt been carried out yet.
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You know, that is a very good question.\nIf our courts find someone guilty beyond all reason, I feel their sentence should be carried out in a swift movement!\nMy sister was murdered and, to this day,(8 years later) I cannot figure out why this S.O.B. is still living when he so carelessly took the life of someone I loved.\nI believe in eye for an eye.  These people should die in whatever horribble manner they treated their victims.\nOur system sucks!\nSorry, but true.
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how can the sentence be fair in a situation where the trial was a show trial staged by a puppet government? \nWhatever the rights and wrongs of his case, the trial and outcome can never be seen as fair and just.
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The legal system is fraught with inequities. Punishments never seem to fit the crime. I think I have come up with a somewhat novel approach.\nI suggest we take a "one size fits all" approach to crime and punishment.\nWe will determine guilt or innocence in open court.\nInnocent men will go free\n(for the most part, hopefully).\nJustice will be served.\n\nhere's the good part.\n\nAnyone who is determined guilty in open court of any offense:drunk driving, reckless endangerment, shoplifting, jaywalking, public nudity, obscenity etc. and so on \nad nauseum.\nWill face the one penalty allowed under law.\n\nThe penalty for all crimes will be death.It does not matter what the crime is. If you are guilty of it you forfeit your life.\n\nNow who is going to be able to call that unfair.
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Guilty..\ni'm so sorry to say that.... but in the eyes of law, he is gulity..\nbut i will say that the motive is noble...\nThe motive is right, but the act is wrong..\n\nif the wife knows that she survived at the expense of other, how would she feel... and now the husband has to go to jail, and she remains poor..\n\non the other side.. somebody  husband just died because his medicine was stolen. and they had spent so much on it..it will then be unfair for the patient and his family..
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guilty till proven otherwise. ?
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I agree 100% with you....I don't know what the statute of limitations is on this, but he might be able to get justice in the civil suits against him if he's still alive....for my concern, I WOULD see restitution for this injustice, & blood is NOT thicker than water....if they are an ess-●-ъ,\nthey are!....regardless of WHO they are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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You seem to miss the point.\nHe had already broken the law, otherwise he wouldn't be on parole.\nPart of the conditions for his being released was agreeing to follow the laws.\nHe decided to use an illegal substance.\nIf he will break that law, how many others will he break?\nI have no sympathy for him.\nGood Riddance!
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Please be brave madam.\n If he is taken to court, the procecutor will air his views and findings before the judge to prove the guilt.Then the  defending lawyer will be allowed to cross examine the facts.There may be several trials and re-trials till the charge is proved.\n\nIf proved guilty, and is the decesion is not acceptable, the decesion can be challengedin a higher court of law. Till such time he will be in the judicial custody, to be produced before the judge every week. If the charges are bailable,your lawyer can arrange bail by giving the surety and necessary details.\n\nOnly when the final judgement is given, he will be presented the charges, and the judge will announce the term of imprisionment.\n\nPray to God that he comes home proved innocent.\n\nPray to God that you be granted a better language(you used BS),\nand in doing so sounded a terrorist too.
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There is no loophole. After a person is found not guilty, he/she can stand on the court steps & explain to the media how they killed that person(s).
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The point here is that he had a prescription with him that was not in his name, which is a second-degree misdemeanor. His plea agreement says he "will refrain from any violation of any law." It doesn't matter what his motivation was, he violated the law. I'm interested to see how this plays out...
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Not as many years as you should be sentenced to for being guilty of slaughtering and assaulting the English language. Oh my gosh! "Found guilty," "manslaughter," "assault."\n\nBut I'm not winning any friends that way. Here's an answer to your question:\n\nIt depends upon the jurisdiction, whether the judge has to use mandatory minimum sentencing, whether the guilty person had a prior record, whether s/he is a juvenile. It depends upon whether the person was found guilty in a trial and the sentence was recommended by a jury, or decided strictly by the judge; or, whether the defendant took a plea bargain from the district attorney and allocuted to the crime in front of a judge; and, whether the judge followed the sentencing recommendations laid out in the plea bargain. \n\nIn some jurisdictions the charges that you have mentioned are simple and straightforward; in others, there may be degrees of seriousness of each. In New York, there is manslaughter in the "first degree" and in the "second degree." They mean different things and have different punishments associated with them.\n\nIf this person is awaiting or in the middle of the trial, the jury will possibly have some say over whether lesser-included charges can dictate the sentence. There are two ways: one is by "jury nullification," where they come up with their own charge (very rare); another is that in some jurisdictions the jury can be instructed to find a person guilty of the most serious crime that the person has committed if they believe that the prosecutor has proven guilt, but not all of the facts of the highest charge. For instance: if someone were charged with manslaughter, and was obviously guilty of involvement in the murder but had not intended to kill the victim, the jury might be able to come back with a verdict of negligent homicide.\n\nOther factors: how much time did the person spend in jail before and after the indictment? Will that be deducted from the final sentence as time-served? Is the DA trying the person for both manslaughter and aggravated assault, or is the second somehow a lesser-included charge? Will the judge run the sentences consecutively or concurrently? (The defendant might get 7 years for manslaughter and 2 for aggravated assault. If concurrent, the max is 7 years; if consecutive, the person is being sentenced to 9 years.)\n\nYour question, though, is about how many years the person would serve. Besides the variables in sentencing, there would be considerations for good behavior and decisions by the parole board. So there's no way, with the information that you've given, that anyone could tell you exactly how long the defendant you describe would have to stay in jail.
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thats old news....he already had a trial and was found not guilty an all counts.  Ifthere are new ones, i havent heard of them yet and apologize for an ineffective answer.