Man dies after being screwed over entire life
Some people are just destined to never get a break. After spending 12 years in jail for a crime he did not commit, Dan Young Jr., 45, was killed in a hit and run accident.
“He always wanted to talk about his new life and what he would do once he got his clemency money,” his attorney, Kathleen Zellner, said after learning of Young’s death. “He wanted to know if I would help him get a red brick house.”
However in the end he was just pretty much screwed. If it wasn’t one thing (imprisonment) it was another (hit and run). If there is a lesson in this I’m not sure what it is other than to consider yourself lucky that you’re not Dan Young Jr., otherwise you’d be screwed too.
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April 30th, 2006 at 5:40 am
I have two thoughts on this. First this sounds like the episode of the Simpsons where Homer meets the “World’s Hardest Working Man”, Ed Grimes (Grimey to his friends). Second, and more seriously, why is the lack of DNA evidence considered exonerating in this case and not in the current Duke University rape case?
(And no this is not an opinion on the actula guilt or evidence of the Duke lacrosse players, just a musing)