Just in time for the holidays. I'm sure his family (what's left of it) is thrilled, but now the poor guy goes home older and broke.
James Bain has been in jail since 1974.He was 18 at the time of his arrest. He was accused of raping a young boy.
FL Innocence Project Helped Bain prove his innocence.
Do you believe that he should be compensated?
I do
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Thats a shame
He should get reasonable compensation, at least minimum wage for every year he was in jail.
Adding cost of living adjustments.
Then all the other damage. Like if he was putting all this money in the bank somewhere. Flip him a check to live his life however him and his family see fit!
I truly feel there is racial profiling, and back when he was accused it was so much more then it is now!!
The state robbed him of his life, and needs to pay him back for that any means possible, which is money.
I sure wish him and his family well!!
I just saw him on the news and he appears to have such a good attitude about it all! Some book deals in the future hopefully?? TV Rounds, and every other way to make money if he chooses to be in the lime light. Hope his health is good? I can just imagine the party his family is going to have for him!!
You know how things feel like a dream then boom, reality will set in....
Oh I bet he learned many things in prison. Good and bad!
it's required that 10% of whatever they make while in prison is put in to a savings account and it can't be touched until their release
at least that is what my ex tells me and he's been in prison 10 years this month.
I'm so tired of this happening. In cases like this, people so much want justice that they are willing to arrest, prosecute and jail anyone.
Bain was convicted in 1974 of taking a 9-year-old Lake Wales, Florida, boy from his bed and raping him.
According to police records, the victim told police that he fell asleep with his brothers and sisters, but when he woke up a man was dragging him by a baseball field. The boy said he was forced to the ground and raped.
The Lake Wales police report says that the boy told police that his attacker had bushy sideburns and a mustache. After being shown five photographs of potential suspects, the report says, the victim picked out the photo of Bain.
Ridiculous, Plain and simple.
Good News.
Florida last year passed a law that automatically grants former inmates found innocent $50,000 for each year they spent in prison. No legislative approval is needed. That means Bain is entitled to $1.75 million.
And there are still conservatives to this day trying to stop the "Innocence project" by defunding it, demanding that it be allowable to destroy D & A evidence as soon as possible, all sorts of tricks.
How do they sleep at nights knowing that many innocent people, some on Death Row, are languishing and rotting away within the prison system.
They have no compassion. They are so selfish. They should rot in Hell themselves.
Perhaps States should have some kind of fund for mistakes like this, and maybe pay "estimated income lost x years in jail" or something? I dunno'...
That is precisely what "Tough on crime" has always meant.
I am SO glad for the Innocence Projects around the country.
There isn't an amount of money they could give him that would make up for the things he could have done with all those years.
I wonder how they are feeling today?
Thanks for posting.
While what the victim went through is tragic, I have to say what an innocent man went through is tragic.
Even though he was exonerated, people are still going to judge him guilty, and because of his 'prison' time, many employers will look over him.
The state of FL owes him big time, and this is one reason I'm against the death penalty for people who might be innocent.
John Grisham's book deals with this subject, Innocent man, but so many times a person who is innocent and has spend decades behind bars has a hard time readjusting to life, and they resort to other problems as the person did in Grisham's book.
Yes the state should pay and they should pay deerly for this man and what he's been through
Mooch
I have a good friend, at the time, his girlfriend who had three kids, had him charged with child abuse, physical only, NOT SEXUAL, but that was enough to put him in county lockup for the night. His mother was in a tizzy for sure. Finally his girlfriend's father told the authorities the truth that his daughter did it to get back at him and things were dropped and that was it. Thank God it did not go any further. Seeing that happen, that is why I think we need to let the process work in such crimes, as in all crimes, before we start condemning.