Innocent man wrongfully locked in prison for 17 years is greeted with $100,000 child support bill when finally freed

dhyana · 2012-03-23T09:36:52+00:00

Excellent post. Good thing the Supreme Court ruled on the Turner case or he'd end up in jail again for not having the money without even getting an attorney.

swizzcheez · 2012-03-23T15:34:24+00:00

It seems to me that the state should be on the hook for the child support.

babno · 2012-03-23T13:16:23+00:00

What was the crime he was wrongfully accused of? Also, can I use my time served towards a future crime?

WikipediaBrown · 2012-03-23T17:19:31+00:00

Northrop was convicted of rape in 1993 after a woman picked him and another man out of a police line-up as the two who had attacked her while she was working as a housekeeper. Northrop was sentenced to more than 23 years in prison, of which he served 17 before being cleared by DNA evidence. The other man convicted in the case, Larry Davis, was also found to be innocent.

But why would a woman ever falsely accuse a man of raping her? Clearly the DNA evidence must be wrong.

I guess it serves Alan right for being a man, amirite? Maybe he should have exercised his straight, white male privilege to get out of prison.

JohnnyDrama68 · 2012-03-23T14:56:59+00:00

Well the clip mentioned the child support but never delved into it, what the lawyers said to the state, etc.

I can't imagine 17 yrs, and really the best years of his life, gone and nothing to compensate him?

I would be very interested in seeing the details, what was he accused of, how was the conviction gained? was it prosecutor or police manufacturing evidence, lying???

HollowNinja · 2012-03-23T16:57:25+00:00

There really should be some sort of heavy compensation for wrongful convictions. Almost two decades of life is worth more than any amount of money.

firex726 · 2012-03-23T13:10:30+00:00

Any questions why men are shying away from women as a whole?

PresidentCleveland · 2012-03-23T18:46:43+00:00

http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/Alan_G_Northrop.php Even worse, he was in jail because of falsely being accused of rape. This couldn't be more messed up.

Dexter77 · 2012-03-23T19:00:59+00:00

If this happened to a woman, the feminist movement would go batshit crazy

shaggydog79 · 2012-03-23T16:17:34+00:00

He'd get his $50,000, then more than likely get taxed on it.

2012-03-23T16:27:31+00:00

It seemed to barely touch on the fact that this child support bill is ludicrous and unfair. It focused more on how he should be compensated for his wrongful incarceration (presumably so he could afford to pay said bill).

lolitrollyu · 2012-03-23T17:50:35+00:00

Privilege!

Spaztic_monkey · 2012-03-23T18:50:42+00:00

In the UK you do get compensation for wrongful imprisonment at least.

sltkr · 2012-03-23T18:12:09+00:00

Considering that he didnt have a job during this time, shouldnt his wife be required to pay HIM? (going by headline alone)

MartialWay · 2012-03-24T00:31:37+00:00

For everyone saying she deserves the money - She wasn't required to desert her wrongfully convicted husband in his deepest hour of need. "For richer and for poorer, in sickness and in health".

2012-03-23T13:42:01+00:00

How thoughtful.

handhealer14 · 2012-03-23T18:33:11+00:00

What is judgement in our system based on? Definitely not common sense. If I had any lack of common sense I would run for some kind of office and change things. Or make them worse, which ever is shittier.

dangerpantz · 2012-03-23T22:46:54+00:00

Since men in genuine need of help sometimes stumble across this subreddit, it would be nice if they could be provided resources to help their situation. Rather than be taken advantage of by MRA cons and opportunists who want to turn someone's suffering into an excuse to bash women or get traffic for their blogs, it might be a good idea to provide links to actual resources for men in need. It took me 10 minutes to compile these links, yet the sidebar links in this subreddit even remotely like these (other than the domestic abuse links at the bottom in this subreddit) are either out of date, links to other reddit articles or extremely sketchy websites, or are absent all together. I guess it was more important to provide dead links and anti-feminist propaganda then provide actual help for men who need it. Since a subreddit that is supposedly "for men" can't seem to care enough to actually update their links or find legit resources, I'll be posting these in comments in all the top MRA posts as often as I can. I doubt they'll be there for long as the MRA trolls will probably down vote them to be spiteful or stay on-message rather than do something constructive like helping someone, but I'll re-post as often as I can. Hopefully someone who needs help will get it rather than be swindled and fed misinformation by MRA bullies.

General Men's Health:

Men's Health Magazine

Veterans Resources

Male Rape (Mostly dealing with prison rape, but also abuse and general domestic violence. The only thing on the MRA sidebar which has even remotely legit resources linked)

False Accusations (False accusations are slander/libel and slander has legal consequences. MRA only provides a link to a reddit circle jerk instead of actual resources informing you of your legal options in the event of a false accusation.)

Divorce Advice for Men and Dads (Again, this subreddit only provides a link to a reddit post which mostly links MRA blogs rather than divorce resources for men.)

Dads Divorce

Workplace Safety and Unionizing (Not addressed in the sidebar at all. GJ.)

Any more links that would be of actual help to someone would be welcome. It would be nice that instead of getting circle-jerked or pointed to women bashing blogs by MRA bullies and con artists, people looking for help and advice actually got it.

2012-03-24T14:30:51+00:00

I say we make the state pay child support for anyone they incarcerate. It will make it more expensive to keep people locked up so they might go for probation more often. It also might make the state rethink the child support pay rate system and might push them to have better contraception promotion.

Liverotto · 2012-03-23T19:51:39+00:00

I would like to see more of these guys go postal, just for entertainment value.

Title	Innocent man wrongfully locked in prison for 17 years is greeted with $100,000 child support bill when finally freed
Author	iamnotfromtexas90
Upvotes	419
Comments	85
Date	March 23, 2012 8:35 AM UTC (14 years ago)
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