Was the innocent person's lawyer Alec Murdaugh ? what about the real killer , the look alike, he should receive even harsher sentence for seeing an innocent person being convicted and kept silence..
In the first part of this video, the same thing almost happened to me. It's very important to have the right lawyer in your defense; one who takes your case serious and has your best interest in mind. Do not get one who is just looking to collect a paycheck. Had to fire my lawyer and get a new one who was competent in such matters. It's really scary, knowing that you can go to jail for something that you didn't do.
Many states don't offer compensation for wrongful convictions... as long as the prosecution or conviction was done in "good faith" and not a malicious or intentional wrongful conviction, they wont compensate you. They actually have state laws preventing compensation for "good faith wrongful convictions"...So there is a good chance that he won't get anything, depending on where he lives...
Is there compensation for him for the 18 years of false imprisonment? There definitely should be. Is there penalty for the witness who misidentified the innocent man? (Perhaps there should be?) Have they apprehended the correct criminal?
Massive massive kudos 👏 to Mr Bill Kasting, who has represented and fought for Sheldon Thomas for 14 YEARS, what a frigging superstar. I take my hat off to you good sir, and ALL those who helped along the way, the world needs more lawyers like these who ACTUALLY believe in and respect the law as it's meant to be.
18 years lost behind bars. In my country even real murderers don’t stay that long in prison. I can’t imagine the relief when he was finally cleared but also the immense pain and sense of injustice he must have felt every single day behind bars, knowing he did not commit any crime. I hope he gets compensated generously. And may that serve as a warning to those who are quick to judge and ask for the death penalty.
This is so sad, he needs to be compensated. His whole life is ruined. What is going to happen to the witness? Will she be held accountable? God be with you.
She's not even part of the professionals who are hired, paid and expected to confirm and prove that a crime was committed. How many government employees during the entire time refused to do the minimum?
Situations like this is why our justice system needs some changes and transformation. Just imagine people who have been sentenced to death who were innocent. It's happened.
I cannot imagine it is really possible to ever recover from being on death row for a while. I suspect thease people to be damaged goods psychologically. You cannot just release someone from prison and expect them to fit into society again.
they should have a death penalty for criminal who see other innocent people were wrongly accused of their crime and keep silent. Once caught, death without question.. and 100k for every year served in prison for the innocent person ..
My grown son who has never been in any kind of trouble had police show up twice to arrest him because he had the same name with someone who had an arrest warrant for unpaid child support. My son looks nothing like this man plus my son doesn't have any children. The police also went to his apartment complex and the manager said that my son was not the person they were looking for. Even when they put the photos side by side and there was absolutely no resemblance they didn't want to believe he wasn't the person they were looking for. My son has a much lighter complexion and has a shaved head. The person they were looking for is a very dark complexion and long dreadlocks. I also had to speak to the police and they finally left my son alone. I hope it's over with now. Scary!
WOW That was a nightmare - I'm so greatful that he finally is a free man. I hope he finally gets a life he has only dreamed of up to this point in his life. ,🙏
He lost 18 years and judging from the pictures he was young when locked up, this meant that he was in prison during what should have been his career and family forming years. No form of economical compesation can fix that, it would be like giving a crashed car a new paintjob, the car are still ruined.
Extremely thankful for this young man to finally have his case moved to Brooklyn after 18 years of innocently being incarcerated unjustly. Why did 18years have to pass until this young innocent man to gain his freedom ? So thankful he was allowed to gain his freedom 🙏
How does this happen? OMG. How do you give back 18 years of A young life? And if there is a discrepancy how can it take 14 years to sort it out. Disgrace.
It is impossible. If someone cut down a 100 year old tree in a neigbours garden a newly planted one would take another 100 year to be any form of compensation. This mans life is now ruined and there is nothing that can be done about it. Money doesn't allow him to purchace his youth back.
Yeah.. personally i only think the death penalty should be reserved for those who are powerful head honchos of crime that can have influence that reaches beyond the walls of prison, or when there is enough reason to suspect the idea that the person charged with heinous criminality will absolutely be released into the public to do harm again if left to the ordinary 'justice system'.
Give him millions. He can’t go back in time. His youth was spent in prison. His reputation ruined throughout the years. His life was permanently effected. He should get millions.
18 fucken years!! what a complete miscarriage of justice, poor man lost a huge chunk of life because the justice system needed a quick conviction and the witness screwed up, what happens to that person??
Most likely absolutely nothing will happen to them. Especially if the witness was a child or female back then. He might be able to sue the state at the most I would imagine, but this 'justice system' doesn't exactly have any reparations or measures to take for anyone wrongfully convicted or charged.
Oh my God. This poor guy. This is horrible, I can't even imagine getting locked up for no reason at all. He should sue the state for millions for wrongful imprisonment. These two guys don't even look anything alike.
The state have already paid millions to keep him in prison for 18 years and then compensation on top of that. At some point the taxpayers should revolt against having to pay for the screwups of the "justice system". However I do not kjow from where to take the money otherwise. Maybe the people working for the justice system would have to take a paycut in thease cases but if we did that they would never overturn a conviction.
😯😞Everyone involved with this innocent man going to prison needs to be held accountable and locked up themselves for the same amount of time he done. That was a DELIBERATE EVIL ACT.👿
Yeh I agree. There needs to be more evidence for sure. I know if I had to pick someone, even if I spent heaps of time with them in the past (like an old school friend), I'd still struggle to identify them. Especially via a sketch etc.. The person would have to have really obvious features too lol
i don't understand how they got the wrong guy just because of name? isnt getting the date of birth a major factor, it sounds like the came in with the wrong guy and since the witness ID'ed him they just went with it even if his photo was never even in the original group shown to the witness ..... sounds like the old detective used the old tactic of "using your gut" aka lazy we got a guy in cuffs thats one we can clear off the board
Why is the justice system in the US immune from being punished for making a mistake like this? Imagine the number of times his case was thrown away by a judge because they wouldn't look at it twice? There's no accountability.
Is there compensation for him for the 18 years of false imprisonment? There definitely should be. Is there penalty for the witness who misidentified the innocent man? (Perhaps there should be?) Have they apprehended the correct criminal?
If she actual thought he was the same person, than she should not face legal consequences. If she's still alive she's probably gonna struggle with her conscience, if it was genuinely a mistake.
Hopefully this man gets at least $2million for every year he was wrongly detained in prison and that isn’t nearly enough for 1/2 of your life. This happens a lot more than they’d like to admit
He's going to get well over that. They already have to pay him for everyday they took from him. Plus the lawsuits going to garner $$millions itself. Money can't makeup for 19 years but he deserves the compensation. He deserves never to work a day in his life.unless he wants.
Huh? What kind of defense attorney did he have that looked at the line up picture in evidence and didn’t point out it was a completely different person?
Police messed up in not noticing the differences and the prosecution probably shouldn't have moved forward on it either. It's New York for crying out loud, there's going to be a lot of people with the same name that sort of look alike if you squint hard enough.
So the witness' ID was never any good if she could finger one Sheldon in a photo lineup , see another Sheldon in person that she failed to ID in a lineup, and testify that _he's_ the perpetrator. There's so much research on the unreliability of eyewitness identifications. Scary how much weight they still hold.
How anyone can spend 14 years fighting for an innocent man and it goes unnoticed for a further 4 years, after all of these years of innocent men serving the best years of their lives whilst innocent is anyone going to stand up and admit the system is broken?
And I bet the same people in this chat that always try to condemn people in court where also saying this guy was guilty 18 years ago. America's justice system is a joke.
Now I'm actually really glad that both my first name and last name are uncommon. Some brainlets in the government might go "durr same name, must be same guy" On the other hand... if there ever IS a second person with that exact name, people will DEFINITELY blame me for everything he does. It'll be all over google search results.
Oh, we stole 18 yrs of your life? Well we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing. Only after a cursory look by the appellate court we realized we don't know wtf were doin what so ever. Btw here is a voucher for a 1 free entre and 2 appetizers at waffle house. Sorry.
Idaho murderer should get the death penalty. The man wrongly convicted should get a massive payout for missing his life. The person who wrongly convicted him should also pay restitution along with the judge and prosecutors.
The police who arrested him needs to be jailed and all who helped get him behind bars. If the witness said it was the other dude and picked the right dude how the justice system get it wrong?
Take 30 years from my life unjustly; I hope this man sues the city for not less than 50 million dollars. Brooklyn NYPD are known for being one of the biggest bungling agencies in the country when it comes to apprehending and prosecuting suspects. Heck, same thing almost happened to me.
This is so incredibly sad!! We had a man here that was finally set free after I think the same time... two different names but the men looked almost identical!! It was crazy.. but the innocent man was no where near the crime. So sad.
I hope they don’t take away his right to sue , I see so many states take away inmates rights to get paid for wrongful imprisonment- literally 30 years in jail and all you get is a sorryless sorry
They looked nothing alike! They ruined this young man’s life and took everything from him. There needs to be a policy if someone is wrongfully convicted, they should be compensated for however long they were locked up for!
So what are they going to do to the court! Nothing but this guy lost half his life! I heard a ATF officer after finding out the truth on someone say well what they would just spent maybe a year and if they weren’t guilty that they wouldn’t have taken a plea! Well yes they would if they didn’t want to go to prison or take a chance on 12 people that believes everything if a law enforcement official says so.
I was doing some research on this case. The defense attorney pointed out that it was the wrong Sheldon Thomas. The witness photo ID the other Sheldon Thomas not this one. And he was picked up by mistake because they have the same names, not because he was ID by Witness. The defense attorney thinking this will clear his defendant's name was instead shocked by the judges response.... "They look similar enough I'll allow it to stand" What, what!? So you're telling me the witness photo ID a different Sheldon Thomas in which my client Sheldon Thomas was picked up by mistake solely for having the same name. But since YOU think they kind of look a like you're going to proceed in Prosecuting the wrong man!? Crazy just crazy
Omg I don't know how this poor guy got through all of this..that's a long long time to spend behind bars,how do you keep hope alive,and knowing you shouldn't be there..I am so happy he has got his freedom I genuinely hope he can start living his life,i don't think it's going to be easy,i hope he has got the love & support to carry him through..I wish him all the very best for his future..
So what will they do for this guy who lost 18 years of his life. He should be given a hefty sum and set up for life. At least he could have time to get his head together after all he's been through.
18 years?!! omg, i hope he lives his best life after and has all the money he needs to do so..theres no amount of it that justifys 18 yrs of that place..give em 20 million to start with
Imagine they are so gung-ho on the death penalty with a injustices like this they need to do away with the death penalty and I’m a victim of gun violence
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Really terrifying. Keeping this young man in my thoughts. Can only imagine how many more people are innocent.
At best estimates... 40% of coloured people behind bars in the US are.
There are a lot more
Was the innocent person's lawyer Alec Murdaugh ?
what about the real killer , the look alike, he should receive even harsher sentence for seeing an innocent person being convicted and kept silence..
In the first part of this video, the same thing almost happened to me. It's very important to have the right lawyer in your defense; one who takes your case serious and has your best interest in mind. Do not get one who is just looking to collect a paycheck. Had to fire my lawyer and get a new one who was competent in such matters. It's really scary, knowing that you can go to jail for something that you didn't do.
@@sutil5078 Except... the two don’t even look alike!
Someone needs to pay dearly for this young man that was convicted wrongfully!
AMEN 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏
Happens alot. Whats sad is how long it takes for them to fight for their innocence.
Many states don't offer compensation for wrongful convictions... as long as the prosecution or conviction was done in "good faith" and not a malicious or intentional wrongful conviction, they wont compensate you. They actually have state laws preventing compensation for "good faith wrongful convictions"...So there is a good chance that he won't get anything, depending on where he lives...
Dayum SHAME!!!! They ruined this young mans life, physically and emotionally!!! They should ALL be sentenced to same amount of time he served!!!
He deserves 18million, 1million for every year he was incarcerated for.
For real yes!!!!
Every penny... and extra as well per year for interest
Yes he does. money will never replace the years he lost but he deserves to have a little comfort.
The police should be investigated
Where can i sign for 1 Mill a year
Kudos to those, that had the courage to keep fighting for this man's freedom, & standing with him, Truly hope he gets, all his beneficial just dues!!!
Is there compensation for him for the 18 years of false imprisonment?
There definitely should be.
Is there penalty for the witness who misidentified the innocent man?
(Perhaps there should be?)
Have they apprehended the correct criminal?
AMEN 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏
@R. Lara-Moore YESSSS, THERE IS & WILL BE COMPENSATION FOR THE 18 YEARS HE WRONGFULLY SPENT IN PRISON FOR A CRIME HE DIDN'T COMMITT!!!!!
Massive massive kudos 👏 to Mr Bill Kasting, who has represented and fought for Sheldon Thomas for 14 YEARS, what a frigging superstar.
I take my hat off to you good sir, and ALL those who helped along the way, the world needs more lawyers like these who ACTUALLY believe in and respect the law as it's meant to be.
AMEN 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏
WELL SAID COURTNEY. ✌🏼🙂
Amen! Its really sad how long it takes though 😕
Yes! Amazing tenacity!
The police and prosecutors should serve the same amount of time in prison as he did. Unfortunately there’s no check on government power in the US
Totally agree!!!
100% needs to be done. These cops are just playing around and not protecting the people.
And he deserves at least 1 million for every year served in prison
Agree. How come they just get away with it
@@cassandra6710 no-one above them to do it
18 years lost behind bars. In my country even real murderers don’t stay that long in prison.
I can’t imagine the relief when he was finally cleared but also the immense pain and sense of injustice he must have felt every single day behind bars, knowing he did not commit any crime.
I hope he gets compensated generously. And may that serve as a warning to those who are quick to judge and ask for the death penalty.
Where you from?
Because real murderors don’t deserve my tax money. Capital punishment would save millions
This is so sad, he needs to be compensated. His whole life is ruined. What is going to happen to the witness? Will she be held accountable?
God be with you.
She's not even part of the professionals who are hired, paid and expected to confirm and prove that a crime was committed.
How many government employees during the entire time refused to do the minimum?
@@sarcasticallyrearranged she should still be held accountable in some part of this.....idc
Yes 😢she should be held liable for her actions 😊
The witness should be held accountable!
They better write him a check big enough where he never gotta leave the crib
Situations like this is why our justice system needs some changes and transformation. Just imagine people who have been sentenced to death who were innocent. It's happened.
I cannot imagine it is really possible to ever recover from being on death row for a while. I suspect thease people to be damaged goods psychologically. You cannot just release someone from prison and expect them to fit into society again.
but maybe this is one in 200, 000 cases..
@@sutil5078 Maybe, we do not know.
they should have a death penalty for criminal who see other innocent people were wrongly accused of their crime and keep silent. Once caught, death without question.. and 100k for every year served in prison for the innocent person ..
@sutil5078 and that would still be okay?! One innocent person murdered on Death Row, is too much.
Now pay him 18 million
My grown son who has never been in any kind of trouble had police show up twice to arrest him because he had the same name with someone who had an arrest warrant for unpaid child support. My son looks nothing like this man plus my son doesn't have any children. The police also went to his apartment complex and the manager said that my son was not the person they were looking for. Even when they put the photos side by side and there was absolutely no resemblance they didn't want to believe he wasn't the person they were looking for. My son has a much lighter complexion and has a shaved head. The person they were looking for is a very dark complexion and long dreadlocks. I also had to speak to the police and they finally left my son alone. I hope it's over with now. Scary!
You need to get a letter from the police department for your son to carry.
I can't imagine how many other times it could happen and no one listen.
Your son needs to relocate, get a visable tattoo, or change his name.
WOW
That was a nightmare - I'm so greatful that he finally is a free man. I hope he finally gets a life he has only dreamed of up to this point in his life. ,🙏
He lost 18 years and judging from the pictures he was young when locked up, this meant that he was in prison during what should have been his career and family forming years. No form of economical compesation can fix that, it would be like giving a crashed car a new paintjob, the car are still ruined.
Extremely thankful for this young man to finally have his case moved to Brooklyn after 18 years of innocently being incarcerated unjustly. Why did 18years have to pass until this young innocent man to gain his freedom ? So thankful he was allowed to gain his freedom 🙏
How does this happen? OMG. How do you give back 18 years of A young life? And if there is a discrepancy how can it take 14 years to sort it out. Disgrace.
It is impossible. If someone cut down a 100 year old tree in a neigbours garden a newly planted one would take another 100 year to be any form of compensation. This mans life is now ruined and there is nothing that can be done about it. Money doesn't allow him to purchace his youth back.
@@michaelpettersson4919 exactly, those years are gone forever. What could have been instead of this wasted time. Unbelievable.
This man better get at LEAST 18 million. 1 million for every year of life and family taken away.
This is the main reason I'm against the death penalty .. imagine if this man was given the death penalty for someone else's crime!!!!!
Yeah.. personally i only think the death penalty should be reserved for those who are powerful head honchos of crime that can have influence that reaches beyond the walls of prison, or when there is enough reason to suspect the idea that the person charged with heinous criminality will absolutely be released into the public to do harm again if left to the ordinary 'justice system'.
Sue them
I hope he gets millions of dollars. Wtf‼️
Give him millions. He can’t go back in time. His youth was spent in prison. His reputation ruined throughout the years. His life was permanently effected. He should get millions.
This makes me so happy for him!! How awful and how do you get them years back, you dont!! God bless this young man!
18 fucken years!! what a complete miscarriage of justice, poor man lost a huge chunk of life because the justice system needed a quick conviction and the witness screwed up, what happens to that person??
Most likely absolutely nothing will happen to them. Especially if the witness was a child or female back then.
He might be able to sue the state at the most I would imagine, but this 'justice system' doesn't exactly have any reparations or measures to take for anyone wrongfully convicted or charged.
Framed by police, prosecutor, judge, or all three?
Oh my God. This poor guy. This is horrible, I can't even imagine getting locked up for no reason at all. He should sue the state for millions for wrongful imprisonment. These two guys don't even look anything alike.
The state have already paid millions to keep him in prison for 18 years and then compensation on top of that. At some point the taxpayers should revolt against having to pay for the screwups of the "justice system". However I do not kjow from where to take the money otherwise. Maybe the people working for the justice system would have to take a paycut in thease cases but if we did that they would never overturn a conviction.
Nobody believed him for years
😯😞Everyone involved with this innocent man going to prison needs to be held accountable and locked up themselves for the same amount of time he done. That was a DELIBERATE EVIL ACT.👿
Oh, my God! This shows that no one should be convicted on eyewitness testimony alone!
Yeh I agree. There needs to be more evidence for sure. I know if I had to pick someone, even if I spent heaps of time with them in the past (like an old school friend), I'd still struggle to identify them. Especially via a sketch etc.. The person would have to have really obvious features too lol
This should NEVER happen! How dare this happen in our country. Our system needs to be fixed NOW.
i don't understand how they got the wrong guy just because of name? isnt getting the date of birth a major factor, it sounds like the came in with the wrong guy and since the witness ID'ed him they just went with it even if his photo was never even in the original group shown to the witness ..... sounds like the old detective used the old tactic of "using your gut" aka lazy we got a guy in cuffs thats one we can clear off the board
Why is the justice system in the US immune from being punished for making a mistake like this? Imagine the number of times his case was thrown away by a judge because they wouldn't look at it twice? There's no accountability.
That’s messed up. Not only the same name but they really do look quite similar.
How horrifying is this.... My God I hope he gets compensated greatly to aid in making what's left of his life, the best it can be.
WTF !!! That poor man
Is there compensation for him for the 18 years of false imprisonment?
There definitely should be.
Is there penalty for the witness who misidentified the innocent man?
(Perhaps there should be?)
Have they apprehended the correct criminal?
If she actual thought he was the same person, than she should not face legal consequences. If she's still alive she's probably gonna struggle with her conscience, if it was genuinely a mistake.
Hopefully this man gets at least $2million for every year he was wrongly detained in prison and that isn’t nearly enough for 1/2 of your life. This happens a lot more than they’d like to admit
He's going to get well over that. They already have to pay him for everyday they took from him. Plus the lawsuits going to garner $$millions itself. Money can't makeup for 19 years but he deserves the compensation. He deserves never to work a day in his life.unless he wants.
Huh? What kind of defense attorney did he have that looked at the line up picture in evidence and didn’t point out it was a completely different person?
So sorry this happened to this young man. That's scary.
Police messed up in not noticing the differences and the prosecution probably shouldn't have moved forward on it either. It's New York for crying out loud, there's going to be a lot of people with the same name that sort of look alike if you squint hard enough.
ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGEOUS!!!!
THIS IS DISGUSTING!
I hope he sues the crap out of them
After 18 years who do you even sue besides maybe the state?
That’s F up! Smh 😡😡😡😡😡
This was such a gross miscarriage of justice. I hope he is amply compensated.
Most likely they won't give him a thing. Cruel world we live in
I can't believe this case....
Unbelievable! No DNA involved?
So the witness' ID was never any good if she could finger one Sheldon in a photo lineup , see another Sheldon in person that she failed to ID in a lineup, and testify that _he's_ the perpetrator. There's so much research on the unreliability of eyewitness identifications. Scary how much weight they still hold.
How anyone can spend 14 years fighting for an innocent man and it goes unnoticed for a further 4 years, after all of these years of innocent men serving the best years of their lives whilst innocent is anyone going to stand up and admit the system is broken?
How many innocent men are currently rotting away in prison that we dont know about yet?
What assuming until guilty? Wow
How awful! I just cannot imagine.
And I bet the same people in this chat that always try to condemn people in court where also saying this guy was guilty 18 years ago. America's justice system is a joke.
Yeah most likely
The guy released from prison was a gang member back in the day, who was arrested for pointing a gun at police (non-functional gun) and other offenses.
Now I'm actually really glad that both my first name and last name are uncommon. Some brainlets in the government might go "durr same name, must be same guy"
On the other hand... if there ever IS a second person with that exact name, people will DEFINITELY blame me for everything he does. It'll be all over google search results.
Oh, we stole 18 yrs of your life? Well we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing. Only after a cursory look by the appellate court we realized we don't know wtf were doin what so ever. Btw here is a voucher for a 1 free entre and 2 appetizers at waffle house. Sorry.
It's time to file a lawsuit against New York I think for this poor man and it'll cost a lot of money for 18 years of his freedom
Idaho murderer should get the death penalty. The man wrongly convicted should get a massive payout for missing his life. The person who wrongly convicted him should also pay restitution along with the judge and prosecutors.
Thanks
The mustache for the win 😂
A million for every year in.
The police who arrested him needs to be jailed and all who helped get him behind bars. If the witness said it was the other dude and picked the right dude how the justice system get it wrong?
Take 30 years from my life unjustly; I hope this man sues the city for not less than 50 million dollars. Brooklyn NYPD are known for being one of the biggest bungling agencies in the country when it comes to apprehending and prosecuting suspects. Heck, same thing almost happened to me.
This is so incredibly sad!! We had a man here that was finally set free after I think the same time... two different names but the men looked almost identical!! It was crazy.. but the innocent man was no where near the crime. So sad.
I hope they don’t take away his right to sue , I see so many states take away inmates rights to get paid for wrongful imprisonment- literally 30 years in jail and all you get is a sorryless sorry
Law , order and justice above ALL....
It happens more than you think.
what happens if it had of been the death penalty it bares thinking about i hope he gets millions
geesh. you can tell by his eyebrows it isn't the same guy
Absolutely awful. God bless this man I hope the rest of his life is filled with happiness to make up for this tragedy
He should never have to work a day in his life for this atrocity
OMG. This man and his family have been LOCKED UP for 18 yrs!!!
How many people have had the same thing happen? This criminal "justice" system is a joke.
They looked nothing alike! They ruined this young man’s life and took everything from him. There needs to be a policy if someone is wrongfully convicted, they should be compensated for however long they were locked up for!
Why do these egregious miscarriages of justice take so long to resolve?
Speechless….😢❤
I guess he is approved an extra free attorney? As opposed to a rich person that can hire a big team?
So what are they going to do to the court! Nothing but this guy lost half his life! I heard a ATF officer after finding out the truth on someone say well what they would just spent maybe a year and if they weren’t guilty that they wouldn’t have taken a plea! Well yes they would if they didn’t want to go to prison or take a chance on 12 people that believes everything if a law enforcement official says so.
I was doing some research on this case. The defense attorney pointed out that it was the wrong Sheldon Thomas. The witness photo ID the other Sheldon Thomas not this one. And he was picked up by mistake because they have the same names, not because he was ID by Witness.
The defense attorney thinking this will clear his defendant's name was instead shocked by the judges response....
"They look similar enough I'll allow it to stand" What, what!?
So you're telling me the witness photo ID a different Sheldon Thomas in which my client Sheldon Thomas was picked up by mistake solely for having the same name. But since YOU think they kind of look a like you're going to proceed in Prosecuting the wrong man!? Crazy just crazy
So who can he sue the legal system?
Those cops, that judge, that jury should get life.
Omg I don't know how this poor guy got through all of this..that's a long long time to spend behind bars,how do you keep hope alive,and knowing you shouldn't be there..I am so happy he has got his freedom I genuinely hope he can start living his life,i don't think it's going to be easy,i hope he has got the love & support to carry him through..I wish him all the very best for his future..
So what does the New York attorney general do now other than say.... Oops! Sorry...
Nothing is as unreliable as an eye witness
So what will they do for this guy who lost 18 years of his life. He should be given a hefty sum and set up for life. At least he could have time to get his head together after all he's been through.
Omg. This man lost his best years. WHO pays for this? I pray for the others that are innocent, yet in prison.
My thoughts are with them, and this man.
Lawsuit..
God Bless you
18 years?!! omg, i hope he lives his best life after and has all the money he needs to do so..theres no amount of it that justifys 18 yrs of that place..give em 20 million to start with
So doing the math he did 72% of his sentence, give this man MILLIONS
Imagine they are so gung-ho on the death penalty with a injustices like this they need to do away with the death penalty and I’m a victim of gun violence
He should be awarded a million dollars for EVERY YEAR he was in there.
$18 million for 18 years hard labor. Congratulations on your new adventure......
Hope he gets whatever he wants in life from this point on. So many more locked up. Such injustice.
Poor guy.
What a nightmare. I hope he gets millions in compensation and lives a beautiful life.
There names may be the same but their Birthday's and DNA would be different
He should get compensation for this, no amount of money will bring back those 18 years of his life but it would be the right thing to do.
This would never happen to a woman
I would love to see a series which highlights the issue of wrongful conviction with an in depth focus on previous cases .
SUE EVERYBODY!!!
Prayers for this young man and his family. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽