misk@sopuli.xyz to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 year agoTwo men exonerated after 30 years in prison by retrocomputing enthusiasts and the Bloop Museum, by extracting data from a damaged floppy disc.www.patreon.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1272file-textcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanshackernews@derp.foo
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minus-squareMoonrise2473@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up54·1 year agoAlso: 30+ years for rape? While rape is a hateful crime, usually people don’t get all that prison time for that. That’s what you get when you’re poor, black and homeless? The other unjustly accused guy, who was black but not poor and not homeless got much less time and went out of prison twenty years ago
minus-squarecowpowered@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up62·1 year agoAnd if you’re rich, white and and a student athlete at Stanford you only get 6 months in jail.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up52·1 year agoLike the convicted rapist Brock Turner, who now goes by Allen Turner, but is still a convicted rapist?
minus-squareprokyonid@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agoHe wasn’t imprisoned for 30+ years. He got 7 years and was out after 5. He was, in his own words, ‘locked up in [his mind]’ for 30+ years.
minus-squareMoonrise2473@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoHuh now that I re read the article I noticed it. I misread it
Also: 30+ years for rape? While rape is a hateful crime, usually people don’t get all that prison time for that.
That’s what you get when you’re poor, black and homeless?
The other unjustly accused guy, who was black but not poor and not homeless got much less time and went out of prison twenty years ago
And if you’re rich, white and and a student athlete at Stanford you only get 6 months in jail.
Like the convicted rapist Brock Turner, who now goes by Allen Turner, but is still a convicted rapist?
He wasn’t imprisoned for 30+ years. He got 7 years and was out after 5. He was, in his own words, ‘locked up in [his mind]’ for 30+ years.
Huh now that I re read the article I noticed it.
I misread it
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