I wanted to make a thread about this gu'ys story because it's literally the most back and forth legal fuck up I've seen. It's local here so I don't know how much it's hit national news.
In 2000 19 year old Rene Lima-Marin was sentenced 98 years in prison for 2 armed video store robberies (know one was injured). In 2008 he was let out on parole. After he got out he completely turned his life around. Got married, bought a house, had a few kids, and got a good job. Basically lived a normal life.
6 years later in 2014 the State realizes they released him on parole by mistake due to a clerical error. He was told by his appeals attorney his sentence was 16 years and the State realized he was supposed to serve his sentences consecutively not concurrently. So in 2014 they send him back to prison saying their error doesn't do away with his sentence.
It obviously went to court again and his argument was he was released on parole and was living an upstanding life. If he thought he shouldn't be out he wouldn't have got married, bought a house, had kids, etc. He was in jail until just recently when the judge declared it would be cruel and unusual punishment to send him back to jail again.
So Rene is all happy walks out of prison thinking he's done and going home to see his family and boom ICE arrests him as soon as he walks out because he immigrated from Cuba with his father when he was 2 years old. And since he has a felony record they are going to deport him. So once again he's back in prison.
Today our Governor says fuck all of this and issues a pardon to wipe the felony off his record so ICE can't deport him. And he does it in the knick of time So once again he's leaving prison thinking he's going home to his family. Then as he's getting ready to leave some other State lawmakers say hey not so fast. It's the law that the Governor has to give everyone involved 14 days so the other side can fight it. So basically they are suing making the pardon null and void. So now he's back in the hands of ICE waiting to see what will happen next.
In 2000 19 year old Rene Lima-Marin was sentenced 98 years in prison for 2 armed video store robberies (know one was injured). In 2008 he was let out on parole. After he got out he completely turned his life around. Got married, bought a house, had a few kids, and got a good job. Basically lived a normal life.
6 years later in 2014 the State realizes they released him on parole by mistake due to a clerical error. He was told by his appeals attorney his sentence was 16 years and the State realized he was supposed to serve his sentences consecutively not concurrently. So in 2014 they send him back to prison saying their error doesn't do away with his sentence.
It obviously went to court again and his argument was he was released on parole and was living an upstanding life. If he thought he shouldn't be out he wouldn't have got married, bought a house, had kids, etc. He was in jail until just recently when the judge declared it would be cruel and unusual punishment to send him back to jail again.
So Rene is all happy walks out of prison thinking he's done and going home to see his family and boom ICE arrests him as soon as he walks out because he immigrated from Cuba with his father when he was 2 years old. And since he has a felony record they are going to deport him. So once again he's back in prison.
Today our Governor says fuck all of this and issues a pardon to wipe the felony off his record so ICE can't deport him. And he does it in the knick of time So once again he's leaving prison thinking he's going home to his family. Then as he's getting ready to leave some other State lawmakers say hey not so fast. It's the law that the Governor has to give everyone involved 14 days so the other side can fight it. So basically they are suing making the pardon null and void. So now he's back in the hands of ICE waiting to see what will happen next.
