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	Comments on: They Served Their Time for Sex Crimes. The State Won’t Let Them Go.	</title>
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		By: Donna &#38; Nancy Butera		</title>
		<link>https://floridaactioncommittee.org/they-served-their-time-for-sex-crimes-the-state-wont-let-them-go/comment-page-1/#comment-67210</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donna &#38; Nancy Butera]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 06:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://floridaactioncommittee.org/they-served-their-time-for-sex-crimes-the-state-wont-let-them-go/comment-page-1/#comment-67163&quot;&gt;Nancy Patterson&lt;/a&gt;.

God, please continue to protect the victims! Especially the children who are brave enough to point out their abusers. Please allow justice to continue to be served <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f64f-1f3fd.png" alt="🙏🏽" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f64f-1f3fd.png" alt="🙏🏽" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://floridaactioncommittee.org/they-served-their-time-for-sex-crimes-the-state-wont-let-them-go/comment-page-1/#comment-67163">Nancy Patterson</a>.</p>
<p>God, please continue to protect the victims! Especially the children who are brave enough to point out their abusers. Please allow justice to continue to be served 🙏🏽 🙏🏽</p>
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		By: TS		</title>
		<link>https://floridaactioncommittee.org/they-served-their-time-for-sex-crimes-the-state-wont-let-them-go/comment-page-2/#comment-67199</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TS]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2025 14:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://floridaactioncommittee.org/they-served-their-time-for-sex-crimes-the-state-wont-let-them-go/comment-page-2/#comment-67194&quot;&gt;Bo&lt;/a&gt;.

Great write up.  The one big problem with the prosecutorial portion is lawyers are guarding the hen house so to speak when it comes to meting out justice towards their fellow lawyers.  The bar is set very high for them to even consider it.  As one who tried, put together a great package for their review, they denied it because a court had not considered it.  A court wouldn&#039;t consider it because the Bar Assn hadn&#039;t considered it.  So, unless it is so obvious of a Brady violation, for example, the Bar Assn won&#039;t rat out their own.  Once they are no longer protected by their own, much like LE protects their own, and they are truly reviewed by those who can inflict change, it is a hard hill to charge.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://floridaactioncommittee.org/they-served-their-time-for-sex-crimes-the-state-wont-let-them-go/comment-page-2/#comment-67194">Bo</a>.</p>
<p>Great write up.  The one big problem with the prosecutorial portion is lawyers are guarding the hen house so to speak when it comes to meting out justice towards their fellow lawyers.  The bar is set very high for them to even consider it.  As one who tried, put together a great package for their review, they denied it because a court had not considered it.  A court wouldn&#8217;t consider it because the Bar Assn hadn&#8217;t considered it.  So, unless it is so obvious of a Brady violation, for example, the Bar Assn won&#8217;t rat out their own.  Once they are no longer protected by their own, much like LE protects their own, and they are truly reviewed by those who can inflict change, it is a hard hill to charge.</p>
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		By: Mr. D. A. Dorsett		</title>
		<link>https://floridaactioncommittee.org/they-served-their-time-for-sex-crimes-the-state-wont-let-them-go/comment-page-2/#comment-67197</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mr. D. A. Dorsett]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2025 11:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This was certainly a a major travesty that should be looked into further. But this happens to black people daily and now you know how we feel being prosecuted for crimes we never committed and jailed forevermore just for being black in America.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This was certainly a a major travesty that should be looked into further. But this happens to black people daily and now you know how we feel being prosecuted for crimes we never committed and jailed forevermore just for being black in America.</p>
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		By: Bo		</title>
		<link>https://floridaactioncommittee.org/they-served-their-time-for-sex-crimes-the-state-wont-let-them-go/comment-page-2/#comment-67194</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Everything failed for Rodney Roberts, and in that light, everything continues to fail for Americans.  There is no end in sight, no body to intervene, no leader to effect change, no coalition of associations, body of Congress, no effective special interest group.  In the area of criminal justice reform, we have no leadership, beginning because the public is convinced in the guilt of anyone processed by this system. 

Too much of the debate on criminal justice reform gets hijacked by slogans like “defund the police,” when the real need is targeted, structural reform across the whole system—especially in the parts no one likes to talk about. Police reform is important, yes, but standardizing use of force and cracking down on overused or abusive tactics like no-knock raids and civil forfeiture is more realistic and productive than blanket attacks on law enforcement.
But where you&#039;re really hitting the nail is with the courts and prosecutors. That&#039;s where most of the injustice hides. Prosecutors who suppress evidence or coerce plea deals ruin lives, and they almost never face consequences. The plea bargain system has become a conveyor belt for guilty verdicts, not justice. And you’re right—when courts develop patterns of poor judgment or bias, there’s no real system for calling that out or correcting it. That’s dangerous.
The post-punishment phase is even worse. Sex offender management is a disaster—more focused on endless punishment than real safety or reintegration. And prisons are still operating like warehouses for future crime, not places to prepare people to return to society.
In short, real reform should target:
•	Police practices: standardization, accountability, demilitarization—not defunding.
•	Prosecutorial misconduct: consequences for evidence tampering, lying, and abuse.
•	Judicial oversight: tracking and correcting poor patterns in sentencing and rulings.
•	Sentencing: fairer, more transparent, less tied to plea deal leverage.
•	Reentry and rehabilitation: realistic support for returning citizens.
•	Sex offender laws: total overhaul grounded in science and fairness, not fear.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everything failed for Rodney Roberts, and in that light, everything continues to fail for Americans.  There is no end in sight, no body to intervene, no leader to effect change, no coalition of associations, body of Congress, no effective special interest group.  In the area of criminal justice reform, we have no leadership, beginning because the public is convinced in the guilt of anyone processed by this system. </p>
<p>Too much of the debate on criminal justice reform gets hijacked by slogans like “defund the police,” when the real need is targeted, structural reform across the whole system—especially in the parts no one likes to talk about. Police reform is important, yes, but standardizing use of force and cracking down on overused or abusive tactics like no-knock raids and civil forfeiture is more realistic and productive than blanket attacks on law enforcement.<br />
But where you&#8217;re really hitting the nail is with the courts and prosecutors. That&#8217;s where most of the injustice hides. Prosecutors who suppress evidence or coerce plea deals ruin lives, and they almost never face consequences. The plea bargain system has become a conveyor belt for guilty verdicts, not justice. And you’re right—when courts develop patterns of poor judgment or bias, there’s no real system for calling that out or correcting it. That’s dangerous.<br />
The post-punishment phase is even worse. Sex offender management is a disaster—more focused on endless punishment than real safety or reintegration. And prisons are still operating like warehouses for future crime, not places to prepare people to return to society.<br />
In short, real reform should target:<br />
•	Police practices: standardization, accountability, demilitarization—not defunding.<br />
•	Prosecutorial misconduct: consequences for evidence tampering, lying, and abuse.<br />
•	Judicial oversight: tracking and correcting poor patterns in sentencing and rulings.<br />
•	Sentencing: fairer, more transparent, less tied to plea deal leverage.<br />
•	Reentry and rehabilitation: realistic support for returning citizens.<br />
•	Sex offender laws: total overhaul grounded in science and fairness, not fear.</p>
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		By: DVC		</title>
		<link>https://floridaactioncommittee.org/they-served-their-time-for-sex-crimes-the-state-wont-let-them-go/comment-page-1/#comment-67193</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[DVC]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 21:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://floridaactioncommittee.org/they-served-their-time-for-sex-crimes-the-state-wont-let-them-go/comment-page-1/#comment-67163&quot;&gt;Nancy Patterson&lt;/a&gt;.

Amen!!!!!!!!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://floridaactioncommittee.org/they-served-their-time-for-sex-crimes-the-state-wont-let-them-go/comment-page-1/#comment-67163">Nancy Patterson</a>.</p>
<p>Amen!!!!!!!!</p>
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		By: Roger H		</title>
		<link>https://floridaactioncommittee.org/they-served-their-time-for-sex-crimes-the-state-wont-let-them-go/comment-page-1/#comment-67191</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger H]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I can&#039;t access the article behind the paywall.

I found this article from 4/8/25
https://www.nj.com/news/2014/04/newark_man_freed_after_17_years_for_a_rape_he_says_he_did_not_commit.html

Is it consistent with the article I cannot view?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can&#8217;t access the article behind the paywall.</p>
<p>I found this article from 4/8/25<br />
<a href="https://www.nj.com/news/2014/04/newark_man_freed_after_17_years_for_a_rape_he_says_he_did_not_commit.html" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.nj.com/news/2014/04/newark_man_freed_after_17_years_for_a_rape_he_says_he_did_not_commit.html</a></p>
<p>Is it consistent with the article I cannot view?</p>
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		By: Charles Washington		</title>
		<link>https://floridaactioncommittee.org/they-served-their-time-for-sex-crimes-the-state-wont-let-them-go/comment-page-1/#comment-67186</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Washington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[They knew he was innocent and an accountable man frees the state of any wrongdoing.

Let him sit long enough and we will break him or so they thought]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They knew he was innocent and an accountable man frees the state of any wrongdoing.</p>
<p>Let him sit long enough and we will break him or so they thought</p>
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		By: TS		</title>
		<link>https://floridaactioncommittee.org/they-served-their-time-for-sex-crimes-the-state-wont-let-them-go/comment-page-1/#comment-67177</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TS]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I root the case is found in his favor, but this is the problem with the legal system and their due process...they can hold up the case for a decade now with no resolution in sight because they know they are wrong.   This needs some top level oversight to see it is concluded.  Ben Crump needs to be the atty on record for him and start sending out lawsuit notifications to all parties involved, not just the state, but the prosecution, investigators, etc.  Scorched earth on this gent&#039;s behalf.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I root the case is found in his favor, but this is the problem with the legal system and their due process&#8230;they can hold up the case for a decade now with no resolution in sight because they know they are wrong.   This needs some top level oversight to see it is concluded.  Ben Crump needs to be the atty on record for him and start sending out lawsuit notifications to all parties involved, not just the state, but the prosecution, investigators, etc.  Scorched earth on this gent&#8217;s behalf.</p>
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		By: Tereto		</title>
		<link>https://floridaactioncommittee.org/they-served-their-time-for-sex-crimes-the-state-wont-let-them-go/comment-page-1/#comment-67169</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tereto]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The State never wants to be held accountable. Heck, not a single politician, Leo, judge, lawyer, official, etc. ever wants to be held accountable, for their stupid actions. This is why the US is literally a joke.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The State never wants to be held accountable. Heck, not a single politician, Leo, judge, lawyer, official, etc. ever wants to be held accountable, for their stupid actions. This is why the US is literally a joke.</p>
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		By: JJJJ		</title>
		<link>https://floridaactioncommittee.org/they-served-their-time-for-sex-crimes-the-state-wont-let-them-go/comment-page-1/#comment-67167</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JJJJ]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://floridaactioncommittee.org/they-served-their-time-for-sex-crimes-the-state-wont-let-them-go/comment-page-1/#comment-67163&quot;&gt;Nancy Patterson&lt;/a&gt;.

Amen!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://floridaactioncommittee.org/they-served-their-time-for-sex-crimes-the-state-wont-let-them-go/comment-page-1/#comment-67163">Nancy Patterson</a>.</p>
<p>Amen!</p>
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