Woman cleared of murder after 35 years in prison gets $3M
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A woman who spent 35 years in prison for a Nevada murder she didnâ€t commit before she was exonerated by DNA evidence on a crime-scene cigarette butt will get $3 million in a partial settlement of a federal civil rights lawsuit, her lawyer said Wednesday.
Cathy Woods, 68, will continue to seek additional damages from the city of Reno and former detectives she accuses of coercing a fabricated confession from her while she was a patient at a Louisiana mental hospital in 1979, according to her lawyer, Elizabeth Wang.
Woods was released from prison in 2015 when new evidence linked the 1976 killing of a Reno college student to an Oregon inmate, Rodney Halbower, who has since has been convicted of two San Francisco Bay Area slayings that happened during the same period.
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(08-30-2019, 05:45 PM)P1tchblack Wrote: Woman cleared of murder after 35 years in prison gets $3M
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A woman who spent 35 years in prison for a Nevada murder she didnâ€t commit before she was exonerated by DNA evidence on a crime-scene cigarette butt will get $3 million in a partial settlement of a federal civil rights lawsuit, her lawyer said Wednesday.
Cathy Woods, 68, will continue to seek additional damages from the city of Reno and former detectives she accuses of coercing a fabricated confession from her while she was a patient at a Louisiana mental hospital in 1979, according to her lawyer, Elizabeth Wang.
Woods was released from prison in 2015 when new evidence linked the 1976 killing of a Reno college student to an Oregon inmate, Rodney Halbower, who has since has been convicted of two San Francisco Bay Area slayings that happened during the same period.
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https://apnews.com/c0e921fc73534836aceb8a927ada051f I rather shoot and hit at about 99% success rate and nail MOST IF NOT ALL the killers than allow ONE to skate.  Glad she was freed but I support the death sentence.
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(08-30-2019, 06:02 PM)zigbee Wrote: (08-30-2019, 05:45 PM)P1tchblack Wrote: Woman cleared of murder after 35 years in prison gets $3M
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A woman who spent 35 years in prison for a Nevada murder she didnâ€t commit before she was exonerated by DNA evidence on a crime-scene cigarette butt will get $3 million in a partial settlement of a federal civil rights lawsuit, her lawyer said Wednesday.
Cathy Woods, 68, will continue to seek additional damages from the city of Reno and former detectives she accuses of coercing a fabricated confession from her while she was a patient at a Louisiana mental hospital in 1979, according to her lawyer, Elizabeth Wang.
Woods was released from prison in 2015 when new evidence linked the 1976 killing of a Reno college student to an Oregon inmate, Rodney Halbower, who has since has been convicted of two San Francisco Bay Area slayings that happened during the same period.
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https://apnews.com/c0e921fc73534836aceb8a927ada051f I rather shoot and hit at about 99% success rate and nail MOST IF NOT ALL the killers than allow ONE to skate.  Glad she was freed but I support the death sentence.
Life in prison isn't really 'skating ', but it still leaves the door open for innocent people to salvage some life.
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I'm OK with the death penalty in theory. But I do not trust gummint lawyers to get things right. Too many people will be executed for crimes they didn't commit. It would be bad enough to incarcerate someone for something they didn't do but the criminal justice system needs perfection to take lives IMO. They aren't even fair to middlin at what they do much less perfect.
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(08-30-2019, 06:23 PM)P1tchblack Wrote: (08-30-2019, 06:02 PM)zigbee Wrote: (08-30-2019, 05:45 PM)P1tchblack Wrote: Woman cleared of murder after 35 years in prison gets $3M
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A woman who spent 35 years in prison for a Nevada murder she didnâ€t commit before she was exonerated by DNA evidence on a crime-scene cigarette butt will get $3 million in a partial settlement of a federal civil rights lawsuit, her lawyer said Wednesday.
Cathy Woods, 68, will continue to seek additional damages from the city of Reno and former detectives she accuses of coercing a fabricated confession from her while she was a patient at a Louisiana mental hospital in 1979, according to her lawyer, Elizabeth Wang.
Woods was released from prison in 2015 when new evidence linked the 1976 killing of a Reno college student to an Oregon inmate, Rodney Halbower, who has since has been convicted of two San Francisco Bay Area slayings that happened during the same period.
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https://apnews.com/c0e921fc73534836aceb8a927ada051f I rather shoot and hit at about 99% success rate and nail MOST IF NOT ALL the killers than allow ONE to skate.  Glad she was freed but I support the death sentence.
Life in prison isn't really 'skating ', but it still leaves the door open for innocent people to salvage some life. Chances are she was involved in a different killing and got away with it.  Our prisons are packed tighter than the stands at an Ohio State home game.  Clear them out and end the madness with a prison killing spree sponsored by state governments. ![[Image: emoji382.png]](https://emoji.tapatalk-cdn.com/emoji382.png)
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What does this case have to do with the death penalty?
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(08-30-2019, 06:57 PM)Hightop77 Wrote: What does this case have to do with the death penalty?
Interesting question. Love an answer also.
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Death penalty is immoral.
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If we had it we would be $3million richer now.
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(08-30-2019, 07:04 PM)Beastdog Wrote: Death penalty is immoral. It's not. It's justice. Killing people is immoral, well, murder is immoral.
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(08-30-2019, 07:04 PM)Beastdog Wrote: Death penalty is immoral.
I believe there are instances in the bible wherein God mandated the death penalty, in which case, it would not be immoral.
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(08-30-2019, 06:57 PM)Hightop77 Wrote: What does this case have to do with the death penalty?
How many guys already executed never had exculpatory dna evidence even looked at because, well, they were already dead? Â
DPÂ has to be a lock down airtight scenario. Â I admit, I waffle on this topic
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(08-30-2019, 07:31 PM)ScarletHayes Wrote: (08-30-2019, 06:57 PM)Hightop77 Wrote: What does this case have to do with the death penalty?
How many guys already executed never had exculpatory dna evidence even looked at because, well, they were already dead? Â
DPÂ has to be a lock down airtight scenario. Â I admit, I waffle on this topic
It was never in play in this case.
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(08-30-2019, 07:39 PM)Hightop77 Wrote: It was never in play in this case.
No, not in this specific case.
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(08-30-2019, 07:31 PM)K9Buck Wrote: (08-30-2019, 07:04 PM)Beastdog Wrote: Death penalty is immoral.
I believe there are instances in the bible wherein God mandated the death penalty, in which case, it would not be immoral.
Has God ever intervened in one of these death sentences? Curious to know.
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