Freed after wrongful conviction, NY man suffers heart attack, dies !!

[rolper]

 David Ranta freed after being jailed for over 2 decades :
http://youtu.be/msRrrLcoZBg
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By Ellen Wulfhorst, Reuters
Posted at 03/24/2013 9:36 AM | Updated as of 03/24/2013 9:36 AM

 
NEW YORK - A New York man freed this week after spending 23 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, suffered a heart attack after just two days of freedom, his lawyer said on Saturday.

David Ranta, 58, was being treated at the cardiac intensive care unit of a New York hospital after suffering a heart attack on Friday night, attorney Pierre Sussman said.

Ranta was convicted of killing a Hasidic rabbi more than two decades ago but freed on Thursday after the conviction integrity unit of the Brooklyn district attorney's office concluded that the case against him was fatally flawed.

Prosecutors had joined Ranta's defense in asking the court to overturn his conviction "in the interest of justice."

Since the heart attack on Friday evening, Ranta's condition has been stabilized, Sussman said.

"The accumulated trauma of being falsely convicted and incarcerated for 23 years, coupled with the intense emotions experienced surrounding his release, has had a profound impact on his health," the attorney said.

Sussman did not disclose what hospital was treating his client.

Ranta was found guilty of killing Rabbi Chaskel Werzberger on Feb. 8, 1990, and stealing his car in an effort to flee following an unsuccessful attempt to rob a diamond courier. The crime rattled the Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn and prompted calls for swift justice.

"As I said from the beginning, I had nothing to do with this case," Ranta told reporters when he was freed on Thursday.

Investigators found that a key witness, a teenager who picked Ranta out of a lineup, had since said he did not recognize Ranta but selected him after a detective told him to "pick the guy with the big nose."

A jailhouse snitch and his girlfriend, both of whom fingered Ranta as the shooter, also admitted to prosecutors that they made up their story to secure a favorable plea deal.

(Reporting by Ellen Wulfhorst, additional reporting by Joseph Ax; Editing by Dan Whitcomb and David Brunnstrom)

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"The agony of life "

[bohica]

This is a most appropriate song for this tragedy.

[xxxchoholic Rai ♥]

well that sucks he pay due for some bastard

then he dies for getting his freedom poor guy

[bong1830]

kawawa naman....mabagal din pala judiciary system nila 

[monde8]

Saklap naman ng kinahinatnan.

 

[icarus]

there should also be a law for government to give proper compensation for those that were wrongfully accused

[xxxchoholic Rai ♥]

there should also be a law for government to give proper compensation for those that were wrongfully accused

i think meron silang compensation na naproprovide sa mga ganyang kaso sa US

di ko lang alam dito sa pinas

[icarus]

there should also be a law for government to give proper compensation for those that were wrongfully accused

i think meron silang compensation na naproprovide sa mga ganyang kaso sa US

di ko lang alam dito sa pinas

buti kung ganun kasi in fairness ay naubos yung panahon nya sa kulungan in which sana naeenjoy nya ang buhay nya sa labas, kasama mahal nya sa buhay

[xxxchoholic Rai ♥]

oo kasi madaming nangyari na ganyan na kaso sa us noon

kaya para makabawi nagbibigay sila ng compensation sa mga taong napawalang sala

para sa mga panahong nasayang sa buhay nila

ewan ko dito sa pinas kung meron ba ganyan