🚀 go-pugleaf

turned down for parole 16 times, and had been in prison
:   longer than most murderers.
:
:
:   6/10/97 MSNBC: Mr. Pratt has been freed over the U.S. Attorney's
:   objections. His first minutes of freedom were spent with his
:   94-year-old mother.
:
:   Court TV:
:
:        Judge Dickey overturned the conviction last month, ruling that
:   prosecutors failed to tell the defense that the key witness against
:   Pratt was an infiltrator and paid informant for the FBI and police.
:   *** This primary "witness" had claimed Pratt confessed!!! ***
:   
:        "It's madness in there," Pratt said after walking out of jail
:   on $25,000 bail. "You have political prisoners on top of political
:   prisoners. I'm only one of a great many that should be exposed,
:   should be addressed."
:
:   The same judge who presided over Pratt's original trial set him free.
:   Johnny Cochran said Pratt spent the first eight years of his sentence
:   in solitary confinement.

That's a long time to sit in jail just because the FBI didn't want to
reveal its monitoring operations, isn't