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Wednesday, October 10, 2007
News Will Floyd Brown Get To Cash In On 14 Years Of Incarceration?
Posted By Karen Shugart on Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 11:07 AM
So Floyd Brown, the man with an IQ of 50, is free after years in a state mental hospital for a crime it doesn't look like he committed.
His confession, the only evidence linking him to the crime, was likely falsified (in it, he used words he wouldn't have known), the detectives in the case were later jailed on corruption charges, and physical evidence was lost, the Observer has reported.
He's a poor man, and black, and without a lot of resources to stand up for himself. So he's not unlike a lot of the people freed for crimes they didn't commit. That's unlike the unjustly accused Duke Lacrosse players, whose case was a cause célèbre for angry whites everywhere.
Let's hope this stays in the public's consciousness like the Lacrosse case has — and that Brown gets the kind of financial recompense that's likely awaiting the Duke guys.
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