Quote signs .. matter. Recently this quote was placed on Facebook. The image is labelled “Faux Quote” and was placed on FB to ridicule another false quote attributed to Alan Dershowitz. Nonetheless, the false quote evoked a discussion. So I think I will start posting these mal [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Legal Injustice’
January 28th, 2015 - 11:47 am § in Uncategorized
South Carolina judge sets aside 1961 civil rights convictions
A South Carolina judge has righted a historic injustice by clearing the records of 9 black men convicted in 1961 of trespassing and breach of peace for sitting at a “whites only” lunch counter in Rock Hill, South Carolina. The men — a CORE organizer and 8 college students at the ti[...]
December 23rd, 2014 - 1:20 pm § in America
NYS pays $4.75M to wrongly convicted man
New York State has agreed to pay $4.75 million, the largest wrongful conviction settlement in the state’s history, to a man who served 18 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. Fernando Bermudez, 45, was convicted of shooting a 16-year-old boy outside a Greenwich nightclub even t[...]