Justice or Just-us?
North Carolina, 1984. A brutal murder leaves a white woman dead, and a young black man accused. Darryl Hunt spent twenty years in prison for a crime he did not commit. In 1984, a young white newspaper reporter, Deborah Sykes, was raped, sodomized and stabbed to death just blocks from where she worked in Winston-Salem, NC.
Based on an ID made by a former Klan member, a 19-year-old black man, Darryl Hunt, was charged. No physical evidence linked Hunt to the crime. Hunt was convicted by an all white jury, and sentenced to life imprisonment. In 1994, DNA testing cleared Hunt, yet he would spend another ten years behind bars.
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How does this make you feel?
posted by nameloC sufuR @ 8:31 AM
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This is a tough one, I have to say incidents like this happen all the time. With us being minorities in this society, we have to watch everything that we do. We definitely need to make sure that we are not even a precadicament where we can be falsely accused like what happen to this man in this story.
Yes,even me has had my brushes with the law, and I think that our justice system sucks, completely sucks. If you ask any cop out there who has pulled me over in the last 6 months. (check out my story on personal blog.. http://esnohp.blogspot.com) Ask them how bad I cuss them out. They always out there trying to meet a quota. I can careless when I hear stories like this. Moreover, at times, I have to learn how to stay strong and keep moving and ignore our weak justice.
My only advice is not to get caught up with the justice system that is out there, and if so make sure that you hire a good attorney at your side. If you try to go with a publice defender you will get messed up just like this young man did in this case. I have not fully read the case facts, but I bet he had a public defender.
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