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Christopher Dunn spent 34 years in prison before his murder conviction was overturned this week. An unusual appeal has delayed his leaving.

Christopher Dunn was steps away from freedom.

He was wearing civilian clothes picked out months before: a sage green button-down, a blazer, and a green and blue tie that brought it all together. He had on real underwear, the kind with an elastic band that he hadn’t worn in 34 years, and had thrown out his prison toothbrush. His wife would be waiting with a new one in the parking lot.

A judge had finally ruled two days earlier what Dunn had always maintained: He was wrongfully convicted of a 1990 murder.

But as the Missouri Department of Correction was finalizing his release papers Wednesday, the warden got the call. The state Supreme Court had halted the release order after the state attorney general appealed to keep Dunn in prison.

“It was probably the highest high and lowest low I can remember in my life,” said Kira Dunn, who had used saved-up airline miles to fly in from California to see her husband’s release. “We were completely stunned.”

“He was literally 50 feet from freedom,” she added.

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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 85 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Andrew Bailey is an absolute piece of shit - this is the second time he's majorly stalled justice for no clear purpose.. just racism and political points.

[–] ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm positive an investigation into his donors would reveal absolutely zero connections to any for-profit prison companies... it's just completely random, I'm sure.

[–] norimee@lemmy.world 65 points 3 months ago (3 children)

This is the third story like this, wrongly convicted felon who didn't get released as their conviction was overturnt I saw in the last few weeks. And surprise! All 3 were black people. (2 black man, one black woman).

[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 26 points 3 months ago

Meanwhile, a dementia racist rapist white guy with 34 felonies that can't complete a coherent sentence is running for president.

And his weirdo side kick, the couch fucker. You may better know him as the guy that talked shit about the dementia racist rapist white guy, referring to him as Hitler for one fine example.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Repubs signaling to their voting base.

[–] waggz@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

this same AG is suing new York for prosecuting trump alleging ejection interference. he's a real piece of work

[–] JASN_DE@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago (3 children)

So what kind of clown country are you running over there?

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not the ha-ha funny kind, that's for sure

[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago

More of the "come and play with me in the sewers" kind lately

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That doesn't make what happened any less inexcusable. It just means he finally got out like he should have all along since he wasn't guilty.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

You know that quote "it is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer"? That's a stance on a moral dilemma. For Republicans, there is no dilemma. They would jail ten innocent black people rather than let a guilty one go free, and that wouldn't even be a downside to them.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why on earth would they update the original story but not to add this context

TL;DR he’s out now

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

They wrote a whole new story the next week and there was a link at the bottom of the page

[–] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

The kind that shouldn't be in charge of anything.

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[–] SoJB@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

In North Korea, the state can simply send you to labor camps for no reason, where you risk your life fighting fires of making license plates for literal pennies per hour. You must do this because the state does not provide any living essentials such as hygiene items, medical care, or real food.

And then when your labor camp sentence is done, they just jail you again for no reason as soon as you walk out the door. This is considered normal and the people accept it.