Robert DuBoise, sentenced over a 1983 rape and murder he did not commit, says he hopes others in his position now ‘get justice’

Robert DuBoise, sentenced over a 1983 rape and murder he did not commit, says he hopes others in his position now ‘get justice’

A Tampa, Florida, man who has been authorized to receive $14m for spending nearly four decades in prison over a rape and murder which he did not commit says he hopes his case makes it easier for the unjustly convicted to achieve justice before it’s too late for them.

“I’m just grateful,” Robert DuBoise told the New York Times of the compensation that Tampa’s city council voted to pay him to settle a lawsuit over his wrongful conviction. He said he hoped others in his position now “get justice and can move on without having to spend the rest of their life fighting the system that has already wronged them”.

DuBoise was 18 at the time that 19-year-old Barbara Grams was raped and beaten to death as she walked home from her Tampa restaurant job in August 1983. A medical examiner determined that someone had bitten Grams on one of her cheeks, prompting investigators to take bite samples from multiple men, including DuBoise.

    • LufyCZ@lemmy.world
      26·
      10 months ago

      He didn’t make money, his net worth went up.

      Also, how is that related to this in ANY way

      • spider@lemmy.nz
        39·
        10 months ago

        Zuckerberg made 2,000 times more in one morning for doing basically nothing, vs. what DuBoise made in almost four decades in a settlement for a wrongful conviction and imprisonment.

        It’s pretty easy to grasp if you don’t overthink it.

        • LufyCZ@lemmy.world
          3·
          10 months ago

          He built a successful company, that’s what he did :)

          But still, it doesn’t matter, sucks that it happened to the lad, but comparing him to Zuckerberg doesn’t do absolutely anything for him, it’s completely unrelated to his case.

            • LufyCZ@lemmy.world
              4·
              10 months ago

              Again, it doesn’t do him any favors.

              If you want to push your agenda, that’s fine, but piggybacking off of a ruined life (in quite exceptional circumstances all things considered) doesn’t do absolutely anything.

              What’s the point? Should the guy have gotten more? He can live like a king without a care for the rest of his life. If he has children, those can, too.

              Or is it that Zuckerberg shouldn’t be “allowed” to own his own company, which coincidentally is pretty successful?

              Because if it’s the latter, it’s unrelated to this specific person, you could post it under a cute kitty vid and it’d have the same value.