This has got to be the most outrageous piece of American legal history I have ever seen. Just for the sheer volume of people all wrongfully convicted of a hideous crime from the same DA who never paid a price for ruining so many lives.
How could a nation such as America allow 36 people become wrongfully convicted of child molestation of their own children and the DA who was behind this went on to have a very successful career until he retired? Even after it was revealed what he had done he was re-elected 6 times.
The DA's name is Ed Jagels. He sent a man to prison for 25 years for stealing a pack of donuts retail value of less than $1 because he enforced a 3 strikes tough on crime policy. The man had two very many decades old convictions but was clean for the last 20 until he stole the donuts.
Jagels never apologized or felt he did anything wrong for the 36 false convictions. These people spent more than a decade in prison as child sex predators and they were innocent. The 34 convictions were found to be false and the remaining two were never cleared because they had died in prison serving their sentence and never got any justice! (And i rarely use exclamation points!!)
How could a nation such as America allow 36 people become wrongfully convicted of child molestation of their own children and the DA who was behind this went on to have a very successful career until he retired? Even after it was revealed what he had done he was re-elected 6 times.
The DA's name is Ed Jagels. He sent a man to prison for 25 years for stealing a pack of donuts retail value of less than $1 because he enforced a 3 strikes tough on crime policy. The man had two very many decades old convictions but was clean for the last 20 until he stole the donuts.
Jagels never apologized or felt he did anything wrong for the 36 false convictions. These people spent more than a decade in prison as child sex predators and they were innocent. The 34 convictions were found to be false and the remaining two were never cleared because they had died in prison serving their sentence and never got any justice! (And i rarely use exclamation points!!)