“No amount of money could ever restore the 38 years of my life that were stolen from me,” Hastings said in a statement. “But this settlement is a welcome end to a very long road, and I look forward to moving on with my life.”
The settlement comes after decades of legal battles during which Hastings pleaded his innocence.
was going to say, fuck your settlement - this isn’t even remotely enough
The DNA profile was put into a state database and matched to a person who was convicted of a separate armed kidnapping and forced copulation of a female victim who was placed in a vehicle’s trunk – harrowing details that closely resembled Wydermyer’s killing.
Law enforcement apprehended the suspect, Kenneth Packnett, less than three weeks after the 1983 murder in connection with an unrelated car theft, Hastings’s lawyers said. When Packnett was arrested, police found jewellery and a coin purse that matched the items Wydermyer had when she was killed. Packnett wasn’t investigated for Wydermyer’s murder at the time.
jfc
“Police departments throughout California and across the country should take notice that there is a steep price to pay for allowing such egregious misconduct on their watch,” Nick Brustin, an attorney for Hastings, said.
we need significant reform, much more than paying out settlements as punishment
What price do the actual people in charge at the time or present pay? Only the average tax payer pays. The perpetrators of the crime of misconduct have no real consequences.
Retribution is not a solution either. Police in places like Germany have an order of magnitude less problems due to an order of magnitude more training.
Punish conservatives that underfund police training. Not the call-girl politisluts. They whore for anything because they have no ethics or values. Murder inherited wealth in the country. Take everything except a trust fund that covers an upper middle class lifestyle for one’s immediate family dependents.
All problems in the USA are due to gross inherited wealth. Business acumen and intelligence are not hereditary. The system lacks meritocracy, which always leads to rot and failure. Every big name you know is tied to the toxic culture of great inherited wealth. The core problem is systemic and cultural. Fix the real issue.
was going to say, fuck your settlement - this isn’t even remotely enough
jfc
we need significant reform, much more than paying out settlements as punishment
What price do the actual people in charge at the time or present pay? Only the average tax payer pays. The perpetrators of the crime of misconduct have no real consequences.
Retribution is not a solution either. Police in places like Germany have an order of magnitude less problems due to an order of magnitude more training.
Punish conservatives that underfund police training. Not the call-girl politisluts. They whore for anything because they have no ethics or values. Murder inherited wealth in the country. Take everything except a trust fund that covers an upper middle class lifestyle for one’s immediate family dependents.
All problems in the USA are due to gross inherited wealth. Business acumen and intelligence are not hereditary. The system lacks meritocracy, which always leads to rot and failure. Every big name you know is tied to the toxic culture of great inherited wealth. The core problem is systemic and cultural. Fix the real issue.