※ [本文转录自 Gossiping 看板 #1Q1Rr2YE ] 作者: LastDinosaur (LastDino) 看板: Gossiping 标题: [新闻] 美国黑人十年冤狱，狱中苦读成为律师 时间: Fri Nov 10 22:52:47 2017 https://goo.gl/d1jB4m Attorney Jarrett Adams recently helped overturn an innocent man's conviction — in the same state that, years ago, had sentenced him to prison for a crime he did not commit. Jarrett Adams律师最近帮忙一个无辜的人逆转了判决-- 一个好几年前也是误判Adams他没犯的罪的州， 而送他进监狱的判决。 The case was Adams' first professional win. But it was also deeply personal for the 36-year-old, who spent nearly 10 years behind bars after being wrongfully convicted of sexual assault in a case that Adams, who is black, believes was tainted by racism. 这个案子是Adams的第一个职业生涯的胜利。但是是对这个36岁，花了接近十年在监狱过活， 就因为被误判性侵害的Adams来说很重要的一个胜利。因为Adams是个黑人，所以当时的判决被认为是有种族歧视的关系。 "This is a storybook," Adams told NBC News' Lester Holt. "It's a storybook tale that you wouldn't believe until you saw it ... to have a conviction overturned and in a court, in a state, that I was wrongfully convicted." 「这真的是说来话长。」Adams跟我们NBC的记者说， 「这个故事真的只有你亲眼看见才会相信...一个被误判的判决在我被误判的州法院逆转并且洗刷我的冤狱。」 Adams was only 17 when an encounter at a party, an accusation, and a court-appointed attorney put his life on hold. Adams被抓的时候只有17岁，在一个派对上发生这件事情，并且法院公设辩护人将他的生死交给法院。 He had just finished high school on Chicago's South Side and decided to go to the University of Wisconsin for a party, where he and his friends met a young woman and had what he describes as a "completely consensual encounter from beginning to end." 他当时刚从芝加哥南城的高中毕业，并且决定前往威斯康辛大学的一个派对。他跟他朋友在那里遇到一个女生。 根据他们的说法，那个女生从头到尾都是完全同意性行为的 Three weeks later, as Adams was getting ready to start junior college in the fall of 1998, he was arrested. An officer informed him that the woman said she was raped, and that he was being charged with a group sexual assault along with two other teenagers. 三个礼拜後，1998年秋天，当Adams准备开始社区大学的生活时， 一个警察跟他说有女性通报她被Adams和他朋友们强奸。 Adams和另外两个青少年一起将被以集体性侵的罪名被起诉 Adams had never been arrested before. He denied the crime from the start, and thought the misunderstanding would get resolved quickly. Adams从来没有被逮捕过，他从头到尾否认该罪名，并且以为这个错误应该很快就会被厘清。 Instead, he was extradited to Wisconsin, where he couldn't afford legal assistance. A court-appointed attorney chose not to put on a defense, even though there was a witness who could have helped clear Adams: a student living in the dorm who could corroborate Adams' timeline of events. 但是，取而代之的是，他被引渡到威斯康辛州，一个他负担不了律师费的地方。 而公办辩护人在就算有其他证人可以帮忙Adams作证的情况下选择不辩护----- 这名证人是一个住在宿舍的人，他能够帮忙Adams作证当下的情况。 "This guy is telling us, 'We know you didn't do it. They haven't proven their case. The best defense is a no-defense strategy,'" Adams said. "We're like, 'Yeah, sounds good,' because we didn't know any better, right? But in reality, it was a horrible idea to not call any witnesses, not to investigate, and to put this in front of an all-white, racially charged jury. We didn't stand a chance." 『这个公设辩护人跟我们说 「我们知道你没有犯罪，他们没有证明。最好的辩护，就是不要答辩。」 Adams说 「我们听完就觉得，好喔，听起来不错，毕竟我们不是专家阿」 但是实际上，不召唤证人，不调查案件，把全案交给白人， 那些用种族来判决的陪审团来执行判决是一个非常错误的决定， 我们根本没有任何胜算。』 The result was a conviction with a stunning 28-year prison sentence for Adams; 20 years for another teen who couldn't pay for representation; and an acquittal for the third, who had hired a private lawyer, and called the alibi witness. 结果就是他被判了惊人的28年，他一个负担不起律师的朋友被判了20年，第三个朋友，因为有私人律师，他请来了证人而得到无罪释放。 "My only encounter with the criminal court system was 'Law & Order.' And at the end of those commercials, and that theme music comes on, you don't see guys who are wrongfully convicted go to prison and get sentenced to 28 years," Adams said. 「我唯一对刑事法庭的认识就是『法律与秩序』，那麽多的广告跟主题音乐之下，你只会这麽觉得， 你根本不会知道会有人被误判然後要打进大牢28年。」Adams说。 Inside prison, Adams met a cellmate who worked for the prison law library and encouraged him to try to get his conviction overturned. 在监狱中，Adams遇到一个室友在监狱的法律图书馆工作，那位室友鼓励他尝试逆转这项定罪。 "He said, 'Listen. I go over hundreds of inmates' cases, and all of them say the same thing: I'm innocent.' He said, 'I've never seen a case like yours before. You're in here for some racist bull crap, and you've essentially waved the white flag,'" Adams said. 「他说『听着，我遇到好几百个室友的案子，他们都跟我说一模一样的说词『我没有罪』 但是你的案子是我完全没遇过的，你因为一堆种族歧视的狗屎而进来的，而你当下举了白旗。』」 The cellmate urged him not to give up: "It's only going to take a second before you have tattoos on your face and have given up and completely don't care at all. You need to go down swinging," he told Adams. 这位室友鼓励他不要放弃，「我跟你说，你只需要几秒钟就可以开始刺青然後放下然後不在乎。但这不对，你要站起来。」 So, Adams started reading law books and found a Supreme Court case that stated that the Constitution required defendants be provided effective assistance of counsel. He got in touch with attorney Keith Findley with the Wisconsin Innocence Project, a state chapter of the nonprofit devoted to justice for wrongfully convicted people. 所以Adams开始阅读法律相关的书，并且找到一个最高法院的判例，宪法规定辩护人需要提供有效的支援。 他藉由威斯康辛无罪专案，帮助被误判的人的不营利组织，找到了Keith Findley律师。 Findley knew the case was an uphill battle, but he took it on. Findley知道这是一场很难打的硬仗，但是他接受了。 "He had done his homework. He knew the case, factually, better than anybody, and he knew the law, so that he was engaging with us, discussing legal issues, strategy," Findley said. 「他做了功课，他知道这个案子，事实上，比任何人都知道。而且他懂法律，他跟我们一起讨论案件， 讨论策略。」Findley说。 Adams' sentence was eventually overturned and the charges dropped, for the exact reason that he had found in the prison law library books: ineffective assistance of counsel. Adams的案子最後被逆转了。逆转的原因就是因为他在监狱的法律图书馆找到的法条 ----无效的律师协助。 A month after he was freed in 2007, Adams enrolled in community college, went on to earn his Bachelor's degree and attended law school, graduating in 2015. Adams在07年被释放後，就读了社区大学，拿到学位後又去念了法律学校，在2015年毕业。 Last summer, he became the first Innocence Project exonoree to be hired as an attorney by the organization. 去年暑假，他成为第一个被无罪专案成功释罪的人加入成为被该组织的律师。 "What I wanted more than anything was this: I wanted my mother, when she went to church and people asked about her son, for her not to duck her head in her Bible and cry. And I wanted her to be proud," he said. 「我所想要的莫过於这个:我想要我妈去教堂时，当人们询问她的儿子，她不需要把头埋在圣经里并且痛哭。 我只想要成为他的骄傲。」Adams说。 Recently, Adams found himself back in a Wisconsin courtroom, this time working side-by-side with his former attorney Findley, to free another man they believed was wrongfully convicted. 最近Adams回到威斯康辛的法庭，跟他之前的律师Findley一同作战，目的是帮助另外一个他们相信是被误判的男人逆转判决。 Richard Beranek was convicted of rape in 1990. Although he had alibi witnesses that put him in another state at the time of the rape, the jury found the testimony of an FBI expert tying him to the scene through a microscopic hair analysis convincing enough to deliver a guilty verdict. Richard在1990年被判性侵，虽然他当时的证人有不在场证明，但是FBI的专家做了头发检验後认为他当时是有在现场无误的。 Adams — who served time in the same correctional facility as his client — was dedicated to freeing him, Findley said. Adams，这位也是因为类似情况而被误判而送进大牢的男人，用尽全力想要保他出来。 "I can talk to Richard about what I've seen other exonerees go through, what the experience looks like from the outside, but I couldn't do what Jarrett can do. I couldn't speak with the authenticity of knowing what it feels like, that Jarrett can speak to," Findley said. 「我可以跟Richard说我看过其他的无罪的人怎麽经历的， 我可以用说以外人的角度来看这整件事的经过是怎麽样的。 但是我不能做到Adams所能做的，我没办法像Adams一样告诉他这到底是什麽感觉。」 In June, a Dane County circuit judge overturned Beranek's conviction, citing DNA evidence that proves the FBI hair analysis was wrong. Beranek is now a free man, in large part thanks to Adams' tireless work. 六月，丹尼县巡回法院逆转了Richard的案子，以DNA的检验证明FBI的头发分析是错误的。 Richard现在是一个自由之人，这有一大部分要归功於Adams的不眠不休的努力。 "Nothing pays me back more, or my family, than me walking in the same court, in the same state, where they didn't even look at me when they gave me 28 years," Adams said. "But now they have to acknowledge me as 'Attorney Adams.'" 「没有什麽事比我能够在相同的法庭，在他们连看都不看我一眼就判我28年的相同的地方走来走去更让我(或是我家人)觉得有所报答了。」 「而他们现在都要叫我Adams律师。」 ------------------------ 备注 1.这篇新闻全部是手翻的，翻得不好请指教 2.美国种族歧视还有很大的问题需要被解决。 3.希望更多人看到，但是没有太多P币，所以五楼跟十楼各发150P 一共300P 感谢 -- --

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