Indiana man with mental disabilities, framed by police for murder, gets $11.7 million settlement
Indiana man with mental disabilities, framed by police for murder, gets $11.7 million settlement
Royer spent 16 years in prison after confessing to Helen Sailor’s 2002 killing.
Royer, who lives in Goshen, told The Indianapolis Star that the settlement money will “change my life.”
“I am now financially set for the rest of my life. I hope to help my family as much as I can,” he said. *
Oof. Hope this guy has a good, decent family around him. Especially with mental disabilities, there's at risk of bad actors coming out of the woodwork.
They’re going to take him for everything they can.
Quite a disparity between this outcome and the guy who got $175k compensation for spending 50 years in prison wrongly convicted. I wonder if that guy will sue for millions too.
States have laws that cap what damages you can receive.
I really want to make a police tv procedural that get policing right. Basically, a crime happens and then the dumbest and cruelest person from your high school (the cop) frames a marginalized person while the media fellates the cop.
You might like The Shield, an old show worth binging, about bad cops. There's never been another show like it.
I’ll have to give it a watch.
I mean, as a writer for a show like this you'd have a never ending set of source material to draw on...
Hopefully the police have to pay out of their own pockets.
Link gets "access denied" in my neck of the woods.
A few free ways around paywalls, region-blocking, adblock-blocking, and URL glitches:
• archive.today
slow-loading, virtually unreadable without adblocker• Ghostarchive
poor layout, spotty uptime• Google Cache
frequently fails, but reliably captures video when it works• Internet Archive (Wayback Machine)
slow-loading, but works• One Foot Away
poor layout, quick-loading, spotty uptime• 12-Foor Ladder
poor layout, quick-loading, spotty uptime, blocks major newspapersIf there are other workarounds, please let me know.