nivek
As Above So Below
This is bullshit, they cannot take him back after all those years passed, come on dammit!...
A man walked out of a Connecticut prison 13 years ago thinking he was free. The feds came last week to tell him he owes them 16 months.
Demetrius Anderson walked out of a Connecticut state prison in 2006 thinking he was ready to leave behind his criminal past and build a new life as an upstanding citizen.
The Philadelphia native stayed in Connecticut and stayed out of trouble. He has two jobs, lives in a nice apartment and belongs to a church.
But last week, eight US Marshals came to his home. He was certain they were after the wrong person. He hadn't committed a crime in more than 13 years. They insisted he come with them to court because he still had a 16-month federal sentence to serve for crimes he committed in Philadelphia.
Anderson thought his state sentence was concurrent to his federal one. And when he got out of prison early, there were no federal officials to transfer him to another facility.
He went out and got a job, reported to his parole officer, and lived a crime-free life.
But during an internal audit, federal marshals reportedly discovered Anderson never served prison time for his federal charge. They asked a Pennsylvania judge to issue a warrant for his detention.
'Cruel and unusual punishment,' lawyer says
Michael Dolan of the Dolan Law Firm in New Haven helped get Anderson released the day the marshals detained him, and he has been working with federal public defenders to keep his client from going to prison again.
A man walked out of a Connecticut prison 13 years ago thinking he was free. The feds came last week to tell him he owes them 16 months.
Demetrius Anderson walked out of a Connecticut state prison in 2006 thinking he was ready to leave behind his criminal past and build a new life as an upstanding citizen.
The Philadelphia native stayed in Connecticut and stayed out of trouble. He has two jobs, lives in a nice apartment and belongs to a church.
But last week, eight US Marshals came to his home. He was certain they were after the wrong person. He hadn't committed a crime in more than 13 years. They insisted he come with them to court because he still had a 16-month federal sentence to serve for crimes he committed in Philadelphia.
Anderson thought his state sentence was concurrent to his federal one. And when he got out of prison early, there were no federal officials to transfer him to another facility.
He went out and got a job, reported to his parole officer, and lived a crime-free life.
But during an internal audit, federal marshals reportedly discovered Anderson never served prison time for his federal charge. They asked a Pennsylvania judge to issue a warrant for his detention.
'Cruel and unusual punishment,' lawyer says
Michael Dolan of the Dolan Law Firm in New Haven helped get Anderson released the day the marshals detained him, and he has been working with federal public defenders to keep his client from going to prison again.
