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<blockquote data-quote="_CY_" data-source="post: 2758500" data-attributes="member: 7629"><p>Tue Jun 16, 2015 at 02:34 PM PDT</p><p>Meet Jerry Hartfield. A judge overturned his conviction 35 years ago. He's still in prison, waiting.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/images.dailykos.com_images_148795_large_Jerry_Hartfield_jpg.jpg_0c51d3dfe7f9bd7dc49dfa34e1d220d9.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>This isn't fiction or hyperbole.</p><p></p><p>Kalief Browder served for three years in Riker's Island without ever being convicted of a crime.</p><p></p><p>Carlos Montero is in Riker's now and has served seven years there without ever being convicted.</p><p></p><p>But then, on another a level of outrageous injustice all by itself, is Jerry Hartfield. When I first learned of his story earlier today, I thought I was mistaken or was somehow misreading the facts. I wasn't.</p><p></p><p>His conviction for murder was overturned all the way back in 1980. He was never retried.</p><p></p><p>Guess what, a full 35 years later (that's over 12,500 days), Jerry Hartfield, without being formally convicted of a crime, remains in a Texas prison.</p><p></p><p> In June, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, with a great deal of prodding from the federal courts, confirmed that Hartfield was currently in custody for no good reasonunder penalty of no "conviction or sentence," the state judges ruled. And yet he still has not been released. Instead, prosecutors intend to retry him and are fighting to keep him in prison pending that retrial. What kind of trial? A trial at which there is likely to be precious little physical evidence against the defendant because, his attorneys say, it may have been lost over time. </p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/16/1393827/-Meet-Jerry-Hartfield-A-judge-overturned-his-conviction-35-years-ago-He-s-still-in-prison-waiting" target="_blank">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/16/1393827/-Meet-Jerry-Hartfield-A-judge-overturned-his-conviction-35-years-ago-He-s-still-in-prison-waiting</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="_CY_, post: 2758500, member: 7629"] Tue Jun 16, 2015 at 02:34 PM PDT Meet Jerry Hartfield. A judge overturned his conviction 35 years ago. He's still in prison, waiting. [IMG]https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/images.dailykos.com_images_148795_large_Jerry_Hartfield_jpg.jpg_0c51d3dfe7f9bd7dc49dfa34e1d220d9.jpg[/IMG] This isn't fiction or hyperbole. Kalief Browder served for three years in Riker's Island without ever being convicted of a crime. Carlos Montero is in Riker's now and has served seven years there without ever being convicted. But then, on another a level of outrageous injustice all by itself, is Jerry Hartfield. When I first learned of his story earlier today, I thought I was mistaken or was somehow misreading the facts. I wasn't. His conviction for murder was overturned all the way back in 1980. He was never retried. Guess what, a full 35 years later (that's over 12,500 days), Jerry Hartfield, without being formally convicted of a crime, remains in a Texas prison. In June, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, with a great deal of prodding from the federal courts, confirmed that Hartfield was currently in custody for no good reasonunder penalty of no "conviction or sentence," the state judges ruled. And yet he still has not been released. Instead, prosecutors intend to retry him and are fighting to keep him in prison pending that retrial. What kind of trial? A trial at which there is likely to be precious little physical evidence against the defendant because, his attorneys say, it may have been lost over time. [url]http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/16/1393827/-Meet-Jerry-Hartfield-A-judge-overturned-his-conviction-35-years-ago-He-s-still-in-prison-waiting[/url] [/QUOTE]
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