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Federal jury awards $10M to man framed for murder by police

TU Curmudgeon

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From United Press International

Federal jury awards $10M to man framed for murder by police
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April 8 (UPI) -- A federal jury on Friday awarded $10 million to a man who was framed for murder by San Francisco police officers in 2007.

The jury found that the two inspectors on the case, Michael Johnson and Maureen D'Amico, fabricated evidence against Jamal Trulove and withheld evidence that may have helped him prove his innocence, the San Francisco Gate reported. Both inspectors are now retired.

Trulove was convicted in 2010 but won an acquittal after a 2015 retrial. After his release, he filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city and county of San Francisco, which will pay the $10 million award.

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Of course, if the death penalty had been imposed and the sentence carried out as rapidly as some of the more vocal advocates of the death penalty often demand, then the taxpayers wouldn't be on the hook for that $10,000,000 - would they.

The odds that Inspectors Johnson and D'Amico will actually suffer a dime in decrease in their pensions are pretty slim.
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
From United Press International

Federal jury awards $10M to man framed for murder by police
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April 8 (UPI) -- A federal jury on Friday awarded $10 million to a man who was framed for murder by San Francisco police officers in 2007.

The jury found that the two inspectors on the case, Michael Johnson and Maureen D'Amico, fabricated evidence against Jamal Trulove and withheld evidence that may have helped him prove his innocence, the San Francisco Gate reported. Both inspectors are now retired.

Trulove was convicted in 2010 but won an acquittal after a 2015 retrial. After his release, he filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city and county of San Francisco, which will pay the $10 million award.

[COMMENT]

Of course, if the death penalty had been imposed and the sentence carried out as rapidly as some of the more vocal advocates of the death penalty often demand, then the taxpayers wouldn't be on the hook for that $10,000,000 - would they.

The odds that Inspectors Johnson and D'Amico will actually suffer a dime in decrease in their pensions are pretty slim.
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They're not going to get a pension. Obstruction of justice is a federal crime. So is lying on a federal form.
 
TU Curmudgeon said:
The odds that Inspectors Johnson and D'Amico will actually suffer a dime in decrease in their pensions are pretty slim.
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Hopefully they can enjoy their pensions buying Snickers bars and vacuum-sealed mackerel from the prison commissary.
 
KevinKohler said:
They're not going to get a pension.
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They are already drawing their pensions.

KevinKohler said:
Obstruction of justice is a federal crime.
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True, but is doing everything that you can think of doing in order to ensure the conviction of someone you believe is guilty actually "obstruction of justice" within the actual legal meaning of the phrase (as opposed to the "normal" use of the phrase)?

KevinKohler said:
So is lying on a federal form.
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So far there isn't any evidence of anyone doing that.

Sloppy "Photo Lineup Work" possibly, but that isn't the worst case that I have ever heard of (the worst case I have ever heard of was a photo lineup with 9 "White Guys" and 1 "Black Guy" [the photo of the "Black Guy" was really crappy and could have been almost anyone] from which the witnesses "picked out" the 1 "Black Guy" after describing the perpetrator as being a "Black Guy").
 
Felis Leo said:
Hopefully they can enjoy their pensions buying Snickers bars and vacuum-sealed mackerel from the prison commissary.
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If State law permits "stoppage" of pensions when a pensioner is incarcerated, then the pair might actually be charged, tried, and convicted (of something).

If State law does not permit "stoppage" of pensions when a pensioner is incarcerated, then the State is in a better financial position to merely "sequester assets" (i.e. the pair's pensions, houses, cars, boats, and non-essential personal possessions [like guns]) to "prevent disposition of potentially exigible assets" enable it to "recover that portion of the damages which is rightly ascribed to the pair".
 
inspectors Johnson & D'Amico should face a firing squad, like as in yesterday .................

I hope both of them experience very slow, very painful ,agonizing deaths ............. **** 'em both ............ worthless .............

and apparently the real murderer of Seu Kuka is still at large, thanks to two worthless POS retired cops, that are still breathing ............
 
cuban smokes said:
inspectors Johnson & D'Amico should face a firing squad, like as in yesterday .................
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Generally they hold the trial BEFORE the execution.

cuban smokes said:
and apparently the real murderer of Seu Kuka is still at large, thanks to two worthless POS retired cops, that are still breathing ............
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That the real murderer has not been caught is the real tragedy here.
 
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