Convicted Murderer Exonerated And Awarded $13.2 Million Dollars

David Ayers is a really sweet fellow whose life was trashed because he was black.

"The Republican Party's Bone Deep Racism"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/10/bone-deep-racism-in-gop.html

"The Republican Party Is Full Of Racists"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/10/republican-party-is-full-of-racists.html

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Alan: As a young man, I was involved in a criminal case involving black assailants. The chief detective of the Rochester, New York, police department leaned on me -- literally and figuratively -- to positively identify a man whom I could not positively identify. I assume this used to be standard operating procedure. No doubt, the police assembled a lineup of "the usual suspects" and since they assumed they were guilty of something, why not convict them on any charge they could.

If every such civil rights violation were to be remedied by monetary settlement, I have no doubt the "bill" would be astronomical.

And "the white guys" continue to grumble about blacks ripping them off.

Here is Ayers' "rap sheet" prior exoneration: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2007/07/06/ayers.html

(Notice that Ayers' had previously gone out of his way to help the woman whom he was convicted of murdering.)

And here is an account of Ayers' exoneration: http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/David_Ayers.php 

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Exonerated Ohio man wins civil rights suit, $13.2M

By AMANDA LEE MYERS, Associated Press

March 9, 2013

CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio man who spent 13 years in prison for a murder that DNA testing later proved he didn't commit was crying as a federal jury found that two police detectives violated his civil rights by coercing and falsifying testimony and withholding evidence that pointed to his innocence.

The jury's verdict Friday included awarding $13.2 million to David Ayers of Cleveland for his pain and suffering.

The 56-year-old Ayers was released from prison in September 2011 after the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati reversed his conviction and the state decided not to seek another trial.

He had been found guilty in the 1999 killing of 76-year-old Dorothy Brown, who was found in her Cleveland apartment bludgeoned to death and naked from the waist down.

Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/crime/article/Exonerated-Ohio-man-wins-civil-rights-suit-13-2M-4341770.php#ixzz2N4Nwv5uW