St. Louis Man Set Free After DNA Clears Him

[BlackHitachi]

(KSDK) - In 1997, Antonio Beaver was sentenced to 18 years in prison after being convicted of committing a violent carjacking near the Gateway Arch.

Full story here. http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=115719


I would be happy to be free! I would also be sooooo upset look at all the life he has missed!

 

[SatelliteGAL]

That's terrible and not the only case recently. This is ours

http://www.wivb.com/Global/story.asp?S=6298178

 

[BlackHitachi]

My goodness. I just could not get over it! I would be so mad all the lost time!

 

[navychop]

My god. In some of these cases, maybe the DNA is not the whole story, or it's easy to think, when reviewing the guy's past, that "well, maybe he is, or isn't, guilty of this crime, but it seems he's guilty of other, similar crimes" - or other BS.

So this guy gets a bit less than $330,000. No fatherhood experiences, horrible jail experiences, and frankly, the best years of his life (health, sexual, and mental) GONE. There's no "fix." No way to restore anything. Limited job prospects. Even a stipend for life can't fix it. Nothing. Or very little. We can only work to prevent it's reoccurrence. Yet, I still support capital punishment. We just have to be VERY sure.

How can we "do right" by a guy like this? And isn't that kind of what we're supposed to be all about?

 

[Bob Haller]

Terrible or sure but what of the Gitmo detainees, lost 5 years of their life with no charges ever filed and many have probably been tortured.

The whole thing is why execution is WRONG, at least this guy can be replaced, once dead theres no correcting mistakes!

 

[Bogy]

A more complete account:

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/BD9E103A81B07528862572AE001432C7?OpenDocument&highlight=2%2C%22antonio%22+AND+%22beaver%22

A sidebar from the link:

DNA Exoneration Cases in St. Louis area
Johnny Briscoe, exonerated in July 2006 after 23 years in prison for sexual assault of woman in 1982 at Maryland Heights apartment complex.

Anthony D. Woods, exonerated in April 2005 after more than 18 years in prison for forcible rape, armed criminal action and felonious restraint.

Lonnie Erby, exonerated in August 2003 after serving 17 years for three rapes in St. Louis.

Larry Johnson, exonerated in 2002 after serving 18 years for the rape, sodomy, kidnapping and robbery of a St. Louis University student.

Steve Toney, freed in 1996, the first man to be exonerated through DNA testing in Missouri. He served nearly 14 years for the rape and sodomy of a Richmond Heights woman.

 

[Bob Haller]

pittsburgh had a supposed murder released recently for killing some mc donalds mangers late one nite. He was up for parole but refused to admit being guilty.