Jerry Lee Evans of Dallas, Texas is a free man as of yesterday after being freed by DNA samples for a rape he had maintained he didn’t commit. Dallas News reports:
Evans was wrongly convicted in the 1986 rape of an 18-year-old Southern Methodist University freshman who was abducted on her way to go dancing in Deep Ellum, near downtown Dallas. Prosecutors now say that police told her to pick Evans out of a lineup.
Evans said Wednesday that he never thought he would be convicted because he was innocent. Evans’ appearance was very similar to that of the attacker. At the time, he even had a speech impediment like the rapist. Evans, wearing a new gray shirt and charcoal pants, did not speak with an impediment Wednesday, although his voice was very soft.
“My whole thing was that when the young lady would see me in court, she’d say it wasn’t me,” he said. “I was shocked.” Still, Evans holds no ill will against anyone. He’s just happy to be free, he said. “I’m not angry at all,” he said.
Jerry appeared on CNN’s Larry King show last night where his representative said that Texas has a newly passed bill that makes him eligible for $80,000 for each year he was held captive in a lump sum ($1.76 million) and then $80,000 payable each year. We know you can’t buy freedom, but we ask you LIFERS is this enough?
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depends on how old he is.
LISTEN PEOPLE……SO MANY DUDES AND WOMEN GO TO JAIL EVERY DAY FOR CRIMES THEY DIDN’T COMMIT AND SO MANY PEOPLE GET ALOT OF TIME FOR PETTY CRIMES,LIKE THE OLD MAN TWO CHRISTMAS’S AGO THAT STOLE 3 VCR TAPES AND GOT 10 YEARS IN JAIL.ALOT OF PEOPLE CANT even get a job at Mcdonalds when they come home,but this dude is never gonna have to worry about money atleast……I’m happy for him
Dayum………i dont know that it is “enough” because this man spent @ least half of his life behing bars! I agree MCLOVIN people get MAJOR TIME for bullshyt crimes and there are real crimanals that are walking the streets!
Hell no – 22 f-ing years??????? Wow!
Thank God for the DNA technology that can free the wrongly convicted. Is it just coincidence though that almost two-thirds of these cases involve black males? Do they want justice or just us?
Thanks lifefiles for the posting. Keep us up on similiar cases in the future.
Does anyone know if the girl was white? Just curious…….
@Brokeassnegro……..I’ll be dollars to doughnuts she was
*oops* “I’ll bet”
Hell no that aint enough…..THat MAN SPENT 22 YEARS IN PRISON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! for something he didnt do, which was rape a girl. Money helps but it aint everything, but the sad thing is no amount of money will give you back 22 years of your life…what if he had kids, or wanted kids, what if he had a wife or wanted one, what if his parents died or in bad health now….80k man please, you betta break him off with a lottery type pay out, AND A PUBLIC APOLOGY from the DA’s office
no0thing is enbough for life being taken away from dude and to be honest what if dude won the lottery while he was loit and became a millionaire you would never know cuz he was behind bars for most of my life so money is never enough he should at least have a 720 credit line and can get anything he wants for the rest of his life and that still isnt enough
that ain’t shit>>>he lost half his life…you can’t even live off of 88 gs these days
I was born in 86…that’s a long ass time. Sad!
HELL NA!!!!! i would be soooooo angry!! all them people who convicted him needs to be locked up, thats 22 yrs he can never get back, what kind of ish is that. im mad for him, yo that is sooo f-up.
Hell money can not buy you happiness, and it can not give him the 22yrs he spent behind bars for a crime, he did not commit. For 80.000 each year, he sure in the hell better try, he deserves every penny, and I hope, and prayer he and his family enjoys it!!! I say get yo mutha fuck L I F E…..LIFE!!!!