• @JudCrandall@lemmy.world
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    178 months ago

    Eleven days after the shooting, Rayford and Glass were at a Highland High School basketball game. A teacher walked up to Glass and took him to a deputy. Rayford walked over to see what was happening. Both teenagers went to jail that night and didn’t get out for nearly two decades.

    At the sheriff’s station, Glass remembered seeing a bulletin for his arrest on the wall, devil horns drawn with red ink on his photo. He said there were darts in the poster.

    “I was shocked, confused, scared, nervous. I couldn’t see myself going to jail for something I hadn’t done,” he said. “I always assumed … everything was going to iron itself out. I would have bet a million dollars I was going home that day.”

    Prison was tough on the two lifers. As a juvenile, Glass started in county jail and eventually was sent to a Level 4, high-security, state correctional facility. There were nights that Glass went to sleep praying he wouldn’t wake up.

    Subjecting two innocent kids to a 20 year nightmare. Imagine yourself at 17 suddenly thrust into this situation. Fuck the police and the prosecutors in this case.

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        108 months ago

        If a pretty bizarre set of circumstances with the PI (operating as a driving instructor) and the non-criminal lawyer hadn’t come together these kids would still be incarcerated. How fucking scary is that?