In the course of committing an armed robbery in Minneapolis in 2004, Marvin Haynes shot and killed the owner of a flower shop. He was prosecuted, identified by witnesses (“Oh my God, that’s him”), and heard to talk about “shooting an old white man” at the time of the murder. Haynes was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. His conviction was upheld by the Minnesota Court of Appeals and the Minnesota Supreme Court.
Now, 20 years later, Haynes has not only been released from prison, but is being paid $4.5 million by the State of Minnesota. His conviction was obviously not wrongful, but Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty, who is unabashedly pro-criminal, sided with Haynes in overturning his conviction on essentially non-existent grounds. Instead of playing her proper role in our judicial system, representing the public and prosecutors, she colluded with a murderer to spring him from prison and make him a wealthy man.
There is more to the story. My colleague David Zimmer tells it all here. It is impossible to overstate the moral inversion that takes place when we turn government over to leftists.
