Man spent 24 Yrs in jail wrongfully convicted, denied justice

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Crotzer again asks for compensation for wrongful imprisonment

Alan Crotzer will ask the Florida Legislature for a second time to compensate him for his 24 years of wrongful imprisonment, and his backers are speaking out months before the regular legislative session begins.

On Tuesday, the Florida Baptist General Convention and Crotzer's pastor, Rev. R.B. Holmes Jr,. pastor of Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, put their support behind a new claims bill for Crotzer.

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Crotzer spent 24 years in prison for a wrongful rape, burglary, robbery and kidnapping conviction before DNA evidence cleared him in 2005. He and his family moved to Tallahassee earlier this year from St. Petersburg for better schools and less crime.

Crotzer and his attorney, Michael Olenick, tried to get a claims bill passed during the spring legislative session that would've paid him $1.25 million. The House passed the bill, but the Senate didn't.

Another claims bill has been filed for Crotzer in both the House and Senate.

State Sen. Dave Aronberg is sponsoring Crotzer's claims bill again in the Senate (SB12), the same chamber where the bill died last spring in the waning days of the legislative session.

"At least we can restore a measure of justice to this man," said Aronberg, D-Greenacres. "We can't ever give him his life back entirely, but we can at least provide him with a new life."

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Since 1972, Florida has had more than 25 wrongful convictions/death row exonerations and Florida not only wants to execute again, it wants to add new crimes for the death penalty.

[AX10]

1. Florida is one of the states that I would NEVER...

visit. They have some of the worse laws on the books. They along with Louisiana and Texas.

[ShaneGR]

2. Out of curiosity, what crimes do they want to add to death penalty

[rucky]

3. I think curiousity is one of them.

You know what happened to the cat.

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4. Executing drug dealers may get easier

Article published Dec 5, 2007
Executing drug dealers may get easier

Gov. Charlie Crist, who once sponsored a law allowing the death penalty for major drug kingpins, said Tuesday the state might want to make it easier to execute dealers.

During an hourlong briefing, top state and federal law-enforcement officials said Florida has a major problem with indoor marijuana cultivation and abuse of legal prescription drugs.

Crist, whose tough-on-crime rhetoric earned him the nickname "Chain Gang Charlie" as a state senator, recalled at the start of a special Cabinet meeting that he wrote a law creating the offense of "capital importation of cocaine" for trafficking more than 300 kilograms.

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[Dawggie]

5. You see? That's what's wrong with our appeals system.

If they would have just executed him right away, there wouldn't have been any liability!

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