Suspected DUI driver wins $22 million compensation...

On the same day that we read about the appalling free pass given to a murdering Marine, an American citizen, Stephen Slevin, was awarded compensation totalling $22 million after having being left in solitary confinement, without trial, for two years, and effectively forgotten and left to rot by the prison 'system' in New Mexico.

All charges against Slevin were dismissed. Something is very broken in America.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/u...ten-in-solitary-for-two-years-86908-23724208/

 

Every US Citizen has a right to a speedy trial. It's one of the rights our founding fathers demanded, seeing where we came from was so horrible...

Anyway, mess with a US citizen's rights and pay dearly! Good for Slevin!!

 

Dona Ana County, New Mexico is not all of "America", rather a tiny dot where there was a clear violation of this man's civil rights.

There is something very broken in your analysis and attack on America.

 

Wow, send me to prison for 2 years. Ill take 22 million for that. This is part of the reason things are so expensive in the US. This reward was a joke... 2 years of compensation plus pain and suffering... 22 million is a lifetime worth of compensation.

 

That's two years in solitary confinement, apparently without medical benefits. He could have died or gone insane.

This is so bad that it is even in the news here in Denmark. But in fairness, it was probably a one-off mistake. Except for the prisoners in gitmo who have sat there ten years already...

 

There not going to let the guy die. They have medical treatment for inmates. Even in solitary confinement, the get to go out for an hour every day. 22 million is a joke.... now he can drink and drive all he wants and not care if he gets caught.

 

Who failed to give him a trial? A court system immune from lawsuits? Probably. The lawsuit seems to be more about being kept in solitary.

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This was a grotesquely incompetent miscarriage of justice. If you had been kept in sollitary confinement for two years you'd bring a lawsuit too. Or maybe you'd just write it off as 'one of those things', eh GunBoy?

Any and all DUI charges against him were dismissed.

 

Imagine the poor guy. Coming out into the bright sun and finding Nuke Gingrich heading the Republican nominations. Incomprehensible nightmare.

 

Imagine the poor guy. Coming out into the bright sun and finding Nut Gingrich heading the Republican nominations. Incomprehensible nightmare.

 

I'm getting to the bottom of this. What court kept this case going for two years?

 

they forgot.

 

He could always pay the system $22m to re-place him in solitary for a double sentence, effective January 2013 and thereby by-pass that period of inner destruction of the USA by a true con artist.

 

No, your post is a joke. This wasn't just a jail term, for which he would deserve a huge settlement anyway. This was solitary confinment.

It's something hardened criminals fear when being sent there for 2 weeks. This man was in there for 2 years.

He could actually have gone insane. Justifiably and fairly paying someone for gross human rights violations they had to endure is perfectly acceptable.

This is the problem. People like you. Instead of complaining that it was "too much", you should blame the idiots who put him in there. You vote out those, if any, who deliberately barred the system to keep him in there. Be they politicians or police. You hold those accountable accountable. You don't complain that a man recieved compensation because those in New Mexico (*)(*)(*)(*)ed up and owed compensation to him. You complain about those who (*)(*)(*)(*)ed up and needed to compensate him.

 

Can`t make up my mind if this thread is one of those "someone stubbed their toe, so we`re all going to die" rants, or is it an advert for drink driving? Must say, after reading the OP, drink driving is looking good.

 

$22 million is ridiculous...

This country is 15 trillion in debt and they are handing people $22 million.

 

The $22 million is to make the local police deal with the ramifications for the OTHER 1000 prisoners they have done the same thing to, but were never caught.

Now maybe the office will pay attention.

 

You should have read the article.

And looked at the picture.

 

Islamophpbes' will find a cold Mickey Dees Big Mac hamburger a sign that our USA is going down the tubes. Common sense is not a domain that they are accustomed to.

Rev A

 

I think that fact that the citizen was awarded 22 mil means that the USA is a fair and good place to live. I would 'rot' in any jail in the USA for two years for 22 million dollars! Now if Slevin was in a Arab countries jail, say Iran's or the pre USA rebuilt Iraq jail (if he survived) I am absolutely 100% sure he would not get 22 million for his unjust treatment. No, he might receive a 22 cent bullet to his brain for bringing a complaint against the prophets great state. God bless the USA and the new Crusades.

Rev A

 

You got this completely arse-backwards Rev. The compensation is nothing to do with fairness but an acknowledgement of a gross miscarriage of justice. Citing Iraqi jails is an absurd red herring. You should know better-after all you're supposed to be a 'christian'...

 

The decent aspects of America are maintained by those who oppose fascism in general and the sort of racism implied by your post in particular.

 

I agree with you.

But the fact is EVERY Right Winger on this thread thinks the guy getting ANYTHING for his torture is WRONG!

If the Right Wing gets their way, America will NOT be a "fair and good place to live"!

 

he's already served a double sentence. DUI is a misdemeanor. with rare exceptions, the maximum sentence is one year.

 

Which part of the article could Courtney not read? This is the worst case of violation of an American citizen's rights by the U.S. justice system I can recall, at least within the last 50 years. The guy was already suffering from psychological problems when they stuck him in solitary confinement: does Courtney think such treatment was going to maintain or improve his mental health? And what about the fact that there was ABSOLUTELY no justification for not giving Slevin a pre-trial hearing? He had two years of his life stolen from him because no one cared to provide the most rudimentary attention to the justice system.

The only part of the settlement I don't like is that the taxpayers are stuck with all the bill. It's too bad some of the creeps who screwed up can't be held personally responsible for a good chunk of that money.