A clerical error meant state 'forgot' to send this man to prison for 13 years

[RonPaulFanInGA]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ed-delinquent-family-four-serve-sentence.html

The Missouri Department of Corrections discovered, upon preparing to release a prisoner who had served a 13-year sentence in July 2013, that the prisoner had never been incarcerated and promptly sent him to prison.

In the intervening 13 years since his 1999 arrest, Cornealious 'Mike' Anderson III, 36, has transformed his life, becoming a master carpenter, starting his own business and marrying and having children.

In July last year, as he and his youngest daughter slept in the St Louis home he built for his family, a SWAT team outfitted in tactical gear and helmets swarmed the house, arresting the terrified father of four and delivering him to the Missouri Department of Corrections, where he's been ever since.

 

[kcchiefs6465]

Sigh.

 

[osan]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ed-delinquent-family-four-serve-sentence.html

To say that America is run by barbarians would only insult barbarians and elevate these horrid creatures to lofty heights they could never deserve.

There is no string of words I can imagine to contrive that could begin to touch upon the least portion of the evil that these are these people. In several ways the United States is the most horrifically evil place in the world, rivaled only by the UK. The Chinese, while openly brutish people, are the palest and most inept amateurs compared with the true pros found in American tyrannical governance.

I hope there is something along the lines of a statute of limitations that can come into play here because it is clear there is not the least shred of decency or good sense in the people that have done this thing.

 

[jclay2]

Stannis Baratheon approves of this.

 

[FindLiberty]

Sounds like it's way too late (due to their mistake and for any retrial) to go after him.

If he dies of old age before this matter is resolved by leaving him as a free man asap, at some point in the future the state will simply want to lock up his children instead.

 

[MelissaWV]

Two main pieces of information:

In 1999, Anderson and another man robbed a Burger King store manager of the day's takings as he attempted to deposit the cash in a night-deposit box.


The pair used a BB gun and Anderson was arrested two months later after witnesses gave police his car license plate number.

The victim of his crime says he doesn't want Anderson to be locked up

 

[Anti Federalist]

This...THIS they move with lightening speed.

INNOCENT people trying to get OUT of prison or death row...not so much.

 

[Christian Liberty]

Two main pieces of information:

The victim not wanting him locked up settles it for me. This is absurd.

 

[tod evans]

What is to be gained by these actions?

Quite simply another DA looking for a feather...

Might I suggest providing him a load of feathers...

 

[CaseyJones]

Update: Judge Rules 13-Year Sentence Man Never Served is Complete

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judge-rules-13-year-sentence-man-never-served-complete-n97301

A Missouri man who was locked up after officials realized he never served a 13-year sentence is being released from prison by a judge who decided he turned his life around when he should have been doing time.

Cornealious "Mike" Anderson's family began crying when the court granted his request for release nine months after he began serving the sentence he was given in 2000.

Anderson was convicted of the 1999 armed robbery of a Burger King manager making a bank deposit but was out on bail while he appealed.

His appeals were shot down, but because of what the state has labeled a clerical error, he never went to prison.

Instead, he became a married father of four, a businessman and a youth football coach — an upstanding life interrupted when state officials realize the mistake and put him behind bars.

Anderson noted he had made no effort to conceal his identity while he was free. Tens of thousands of people signed a petition on Change.org urging his release.

Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster said in a statement that the outcome was "appropriate."

"From the outset, I have proposed a solution that balances the seriousness of Mr. Anderson's crime with the mistake made by the criminal justice system and Mr. Anderson's lack of a criminal record over the past 13 years," he said.

"Today's outcome appears to appropriately balance the facts as we understand them."

— Michelle Hofland and Tracy Connor

 

[Wadesc]

The Government: Needlessly destroying peoples lives, every day

Theyd prob throw Merle Haggard back in San Quentin if he didn't get pardoned