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  Sooo, are the taxed the 50-100k per year as well?
context: According to the GIP, to support their theory of intentional homicide, state prosecutors relied on the testimony of the coroner, who was not trained as a medical doctor.
  The coroner testified that his “gut feeling” told him that the gunshot wound could not have been self-inflicted because it was not a close-contact wound, according to the GIP.
  
  And this is why electing coroners is a really dumb idea. >
  
  Said coroner also went to federal prison for wide-scale fraud he committed while coroner. He took advantage of the people in Floyd County—who weren’t educated and didn’t know any better, and also feared police—and sent bills to families for their loved ones’ autopsies. He had quite the racket going on for years. He’s interviewed on the podcast and is a smooth-talking POS >
  
  Damn, what a sociopath to even conceive that racket. >
  
  This is Marjorie Taylor-Greene’s district, FWIW. >
  
  I feel like if there's not already talk of splitting Georgia into two states,  it's going to start soon.
  I live in western Washington and that's all we've heard from eastern Washington for 30 years.  Same with east/west Oregon >
  
  Saw a few “divide NY” signs this past weekend 🎉 >
  
  Splitting off upstate from downstate would be such an own goal by the upstaters. NYC taxes pay for over 2/3 of the state budget alone. You'd never have funded schools or snowplows running in the winter again. >
  
  People largely underestimate how poor parts of NY are and how NYC helps them. I just left the state and it’s insane how I saw more confederate flags there then I see in the actual south too
  I do think they need to have a required NYS geography test to get a hs diploma so maybe people realize how big the state is as my biggest “upstate/downstate” annoyance was how people in NYC thought their family in west Chester was close to Rochester >
  
  "Their investigation found police coerced the party hostess, a key witness, to give false testimony ..."
  I really hate it when the police do that. >
  
  Will the officers face charges? Probably not, most likely paid vaca- I mean leave. >
  
  25+ years ago, more than likely the cops are long gone >
  
  Or they are high up in the department and basically untouchable.
  Edit: or dead, apparently. >
  
  having been to Floyd County GA and seen the general health of the population I am going to assume that most of them are dead at this point >
  
  Floyd County is an atrocious place. I bet these cops are having a cigar and planning how they are going to keep destroying the lives of the innocent. They get off on evil. >
  
  Heart of MTG country which says it all. >
  
  Odd , I would have pegged that place as more of a Pokémon area… >
  
  She really did ruin that initialism >
  
  Margery The Gathering >
  
  Imagine being convicted because of a gut theory. >
  
  Happens all too often. >
  
  Never forget that police aren’t there to solve crime, they are there to close a case. If they find a guy that works, then thats what their focus will be. Then it’s just facts to fit theories instead of theories to fit facts. >
  
  Well the weird part is the case would’ve been closed much sooner if they had gone with suicide like the autopsy would’ve showed. In that scenario there wouldn’t even have been a trial. >
  
  When is the last time you saw a cop admit to being wrong about anything when questioned by a non-cop? 
  Police will regularly throw people in jail for a few days for things that aren’t crimes rather than admit they’re wrong. Consider how often people get arrested for little else than resisting arrest.
  Once they get an idea in their head about how something happened, they’re not inclined to change their minds about it and they will frequently twist the facts to fit their desired narrative. >
  
  
  Consider how often people get arrested for little else than resisting arrest.
  
  In my personal experience, "disorderly conduct" is basically the catch-all for this. The wording of the law is so vague and open-ended that cops can basically apply it to any situation in which they want to arrest someone who hasn't actually done anything illegal, especially if they're willing to embellish the true a bit which isn't exactly uncommon. >
  
  I had a relative argue that a 'resisting arrest' charge (a charge that can be applied to basically anything) is legitimate even if it's proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that the initial reason for arrest was illegal. >
  
  The natural instinct to being restrained in any way is to try to get yourself unrestrained. >
  
  I can't imagine the unwavering faith in the court system required to think that you should be punished for struggling a bit while being illegally arrested. >
  
  
  Their investigation found police coerced the party hostess, a key witness, to give false testimony about statements Clark and Storey were alleged to have made. 
  
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  Martin said that, for whatever reason, police back then were not interested in learning the truth about how Bowling died.
  "An autopsy in the case would have solved it, yet they refused to get an autopsy," Martin said. "That autopsy would have shown this was a self-inflicted gunshot wound."
  According to the GIP, to support their theory of intentional homicide, state prosecutors relied on the testimony of the coroner, who was not trained as a medical doctor.
  The coroner testified that his “gut feeling” told him that the gunshot wound could not have been self-inflicted because it was not a close-contact wound, according to the GIP.
  
  Amateur hour resulting in 25 years lost each for two people >
  
  Calling it amateur hour gives them more credit than they deserve. They deliberately didn’t get an autopsy or use the testimony of a doctor because it might hurt their case, and they were trying to win rather than seek justice. Despicable hour is more fitting. >
  
  I have a fuck ton of family from rual Georgia, they didn't like them boys. That's it. That gets you 25 years. >
  
  That'll do it in rural North Cackalaky also. >
  
  What is the monetary value on having spent 25 years in the prime of your life rotting away in prison for a crime you did not commit? >
  
  It is a Georgia so 50,000 to 100,000 dollar per year served. Which is a new system they only voted into existence this year. 
  Before that, there was no structured way to claim compensation and people who were wrongfully convicted had to go through a long, convoluted process to maybe, if they were lucky, get some money from the state.