"Man back in prison after court’s mistake; Colo. clerk error released inmate 90 years early" by Sadie Gurman | Associated Press May 10, 2014
AURORA, Colo. — Rene Lima-Marin’s wife told her two young sons their father had to go to work the night in January when a team of police officers led her husband away in handcuffs.
It had been nearly six years since he left prison, and his family believed he had paid his debt to society.
But Lima-Marin should have stayed behind bars for the rest of his life. A court clerk’s error led to his release in 2008 — 90 years too soon. Colorado authorities did not discover the mistake until January and immediately sent him back to prison to serve the rest of his 98-year sentence for armed robbery.
Lima-Marin’s case comes as other clerical errors have let criminals evade prison time.
Bankers don't need such an excuse; government lets them run free.
In Missouri, a judge this week freed a convicted robber who didn’t report to prison — despite trying to do so — for 13 years because of a clerical mistake. A Los Angeles murder suspect who was accidentally freed last year due to a clerk’s error was captured on Thursday.
These are the same people who are protecting your data and spying on you. Doesn't that make you feel safer?
And note the change from wrongly imprisoned lately to criminal on the loose. Frikkin' mind-manipulating agenda-pushing never ends.
And in Colorado, an inmate mistakenly released four years early due to such a mistake is suspected of killing the state’s corrections chief at his front door last year.
See: Texas Psy-Op
There is a Nazi connection.
That prompted Governor John Hickenlooper to order an audit of thousands of inmates’ records to ensure they are serving the correct sentences. Lima-Marin wasn’t part of the audit because it focused on other kinds of felonies, Corrections Department spokeswoman Adrienne Jacobson said.
Lima-Marin and another man were convicted in 2000 on multiple robbery, kidnapping, and burglary charges in connection with two violent robberies of Aurora video stores when Lima-Marin was 20. In one assault, the pair ordered employees into a back room at gunpoint and another worker to the floor as they demanded money from a safe.
A judge sentenced Lima-Marin to serve back-to-back sentences on eight convictions, for a total of 98 years. But a court clerk mistakenly wrote in his file that the sentences were to run at the same time. Corrections officials depend on that file to determine how much time an inmate should serve.
Lima-Marin was released on parole in 2008 after serving just eight years.
He set about building his life — while, prosecutors say, being fully aware of the clerical error and never notifying authorities.
Was it his job to notify authorities? What is with the incompetent and shit government ion the U.S. anyway?
Lima-Marin, now 35, started selling coupon books door to door, and more recently became skilled at cutting and installing windows. He reconnected with his former girlfriend, Jasmine Lima-Marin, and they married in July in a ceremony that also celebrated his completion of five years of parole. He was active in church and helped coach soccer.
In other words, he was REHABILITATED, something that doesn't seem to happen in AmeriKa's houses of correction.
Lima-Marin helped Jasmine raise her 7-year-old son, Justus. They had another boy, Josiah, who is now 4. Lima-Marin was in prison for his birthday party.
‘‘That was his life, raising his kids and being a husband,’’ Jasmine said. ‘‘He definitely was not the same person that he was when he went in to prison.’’
And now this pro-family, loving and protecting government has taken the father away.
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Meanwhile, in Missouri:
"Clerical error gave defendant 13 years of freedom" by Jim Salter | Associated Press April 17, 2014
ST. LOUIS — After he was convicted of armed robbery in 2000, Cornealious Anderson was sentenced to 13 years behind bars and was told to await instructions on when and where to report to prison. But those instructions never came.
Should have worked at a bank instead.
So Anderson didn’t report. He spent the next 13 years turning his life around — getting married, raising three kids, learning a trade. He made no effort to conceal his identity or whereabouts. Anderson paid taxes and traffic tickets, renewed his driver’s license, and registered his businesses.
And all the spying efforts and databases didn't come up with a goddamn thing, huh?
Not until last year did the Missouri Department of Corrections discover the clerical error that kept him free. Now he’s fighting for his release, saying authorities missed their chance to incarcerate him.
Last July, Anderson’s life was turned upside-down.
‘‘They sent a SWAT team to his house,’’ Anderson’s attorney, Patrick Megaro, said Wednesday. ‘‘He was getting his 3-year-old daughter breakfast, and these men with automatic weapons bang on his door.’’
Little bit of an overreaction, but tyranny must be justified! To protect and serve!
Anderson, 37, was taken to Southeast Correctional Center in Charleston, Mo., to begin serving the sentence. A court appeal filed in February asks for him to be freed.
Anderson had just one arrest for marijuana possession on his record when he and a cousin robbed an assistant manager at a Burger King restaurant in 1999. The men, wearing masks, showed a gun (it turned out to be a BB gun) and demanded money about to be placed in a deposit box.
Anderson was convicted and sentenced and waited for word on what to do next.
‘‘His attorney said, ‘Listen, they’re going to get you some day, so just wait for the order,’ ’’ Megaro said. ‘‘As time goes by, the order never comes. What does a normal person believe? Maybe they forgot about it. It’s only human nature to hope they just let it go. He really didn’t know what to do.
‘‘A year goes by, two years, five years, 10 years. He’s thinking, ‘I guess they don’t care about me anymore,’ ’’ Megaro said.
What happens next isn’t clear....
Were I a judge, he's done his time. He did it the moment the f***ing SWAT team stepped on his property. Jesus Christ!
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"Man freed in Missouri delayed imprisonment case" | Associated Press May 06, 2014
CHARLESTON, Mo. — Cornealious ‘‘Mike’’ Anderson spent 13 years free from prison because of a clerical error, then nearly a year behind bars when the mistake was caught.
On Monday, he walked out of a southeast Missouri courtroom a free man again....
Anderson, as he headed home to suburban St. Louis and a planned family celebration, said, ‘‘My faith has always been in God. I’m just so thankful.’’
Anderson even asked about going to prison, but the order never came....
Anderson remained out of prison through no fault of his own, and then turned his life around. Associate Circuit Judge Terry Lynn Brown agreed, saying he was a changed man.
Anderson’s plight drew international headlines.
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Another Missouri mistake:
"Missouri lawmakers override veto, enact tax cut" by David A. Lieb | Associated Press May 07, 2014
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri’s Republican-led Legislature enacted the state’s first income tax rate reduction in almost a century Tuesday by overriding the veto of Democratic Governor Jay Nixon, who has denounced it as a reckless financial experiment.
Sounds good at the start since government already takes way too much in taxes to feed it's greed.
The law will gradually cut Missouri’s top individual income tax rate starting in 2017 and make the state just the third in the nation to offer a special business-income deduction on personal tax returns. But the incremental tax cuts will occur only if Missouri’s revenues keep growing.
They are $erving the $ame old crowd!
The tax cuts could benefit about 2.5 million individuals and families, with the wealthiest standing to gain the most, and would provide a boost to hundreds of thousands of people involved in business partnerships, limited liability firms, or their own ventures.
Haven't they gained enough already at the expense of the rest of us?
Oh, right, I said earlier give 'em what they want, make 'em happy, and if that don't make 'em happy give 'em more, more, more! Let them gorge themselves to death on greed.
The override vote capped an intense, multiyear campaign that included millions of dollars of advertising by tax-cut supporters and scores of opposition events organized by Nixon.
We $ee who won that round in the legi$lature.
The GOP holds large majorities in both chambers but needed a little Democratic help to accomplish the two-thirds vote required to override this year’s veto.
Oh. Oh. Oh.
(Blog editor's chin drops to chest and he is weeping uncontrollably)
Did anyone check with the national Democrap party because that goes against the campaign rhetoric they have prepared for 2014? No one check with Obummer?
And you wonder why I am sick of the $hit-$how fooley.
The House voted 109-46, with Democratic Representative Keith English of suburban St. Louis joining all 108 Republicans. The GOP-led Senate voted Monday to override the veto on a party-line 23-8 vote.
Like colleagues in other states, Missouri Republicans touted the tax cut as a means of remaining competitive with their neighbors and boosting the economy as revenues rebound from the Great Recession.
Right, revenues are rebounding as the Grand Depression contain use, yup.
But the tax-cutting trend has not been limited to Republican states. About a dozen states passed income tax cuts last year and at least half that many already have voted to cut income taxes this year, including Democratic-led New York and Republican-led Oklahoma.
Nixon has raised concerns that it could jeopardize funding for essential state services while providing a much larger benefit to the rich than the poor.
That's our $y$tem. You knocking it?
Republicans tout the revenue trigger as an important safeguard for Missouri’s budget. But had the law been in place, a revenue increase in the 2008 fiscal year would have caused a tax cut to occur in 2009 as revenues plummeted as a result of the recession.
It keeps the rich in the lap of luxury.
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Maybe it was a mistake wasting time posting this.
ALSO SEE:
Missouri Bill to Withdraw from Common Core Passes to Governor's Desk
Missouri Bill to Protect Electronic Communications and Data Bypasses Governor and Moves to Voters
Globe must have missed those.
