PhP10,000 For 10 Years Of Imprisonment?!?

I simply said that you may have weak political law that must be injustice to his people. Or maybe people at that time has no concern about truth and justice... all they think is money. so the lawyer must do something that really send the innocent one to the injustice life. I dont know... do they gain happiness with it? The lawyer that help the other person to make this farmer got into jail must be a sinner... (woah...) its so crazy. What would you do, if you put yourself into the son or daughter of this pity farmer, after 10 years old, your father being released from jail... seeing you in the gate with you handle your kid... My gosh... i cant imagine how i hate the lawyer. Its ridiculous... This person only a farmer... you think, how much money can he gain from his lot? Its crazy. Your discussion maybe like the tragic drama ive seen few years ago. Its sad and its unbelievable. But its really happened, especially when you discussed it here, and you said that its from your professor. It must be not a joke... So what course are you taking now? If you wanna proceed to law and become lawyer someday, be sure that you will win someone that is suppose to gain freedom, and not because he/she gives you million peso and you will help them out of their responsibility. Because of their sin, and you become one with them... You are the part with evil. Have a nice day.

This is really shocking. The poor guys stales his life away in prison for 10 years, away from familys good and bad days, alone and frustrated because he knew he was innocent. To be proved innocent after 10 years is shameful. His life is finished. Poor poor man, and then to be compensated with peanuts. What did the government think his value of 10 years of unhappiness was. A paltry $ 250. Its shameful. Was the poor guy set up by the police and politicians. Its a sad tale and must be happening everywhere in the world. Poor poor man.

[i]Hi yuna, Wow...that is a very small amount of money compare to the number of years he has spent in the prison and the moral damages caused by the said incident! That is totally unfair![/i]

ten years of anyone's life is worth a whole lot more than that. they should put all the ones tht found him guilty including the judge , jurt & the lawyers in jail & see how much they think they'd be worth. that is outrageous!!!!

Hey yuna! I think that is really terrible that the poor man was only compensated such a small amount of money for all that time he spent in prison. No amount of money will give him back the 10 years of his life that he has lost, but they could have at least given him more money! That is so sad! Nothing is ever going to make up for them convicting him falsly and wasting the 10 years of his life and ruining his reputation. I think that there has to be something that the government should be able to do to make it up to this man for being wrongly convicted!

That's really very sad and unjust!!! I don't know what to say... I really pity the farmer for being imprisoned for a crime that he never committed.

that's not fair.. he should at least file a case in the supreme courth, because his right is violated, and what happen to him is against the constitution.. the judge should be removed for putting the wrong person in jail... or at least the farmer should have been offered more than 10,000 peso, because 10,000 is not enough for him to support his family.. and if he was not prisoned, in those 10 years, he could have earned more than 10,000 pesos...

It just goes to show how little the courts value human life, freedom, and justice. If a person steals, he gets more time in most countries than he if killed somebody. It is just terrible.

this justice system is really that far from being how it should be. we all know this for a fact. so many gets imprisoned though they are innocent. this is the price of being poor, of being unable to defend oneself ably in court due to shortage of money to finance for the expensive proceedings. as for that farmer, with the present setup that we have here in this country, oh my, that farmer is so lucky that there were some people who believed in him and thus worked hard to prove his innocence of the crime. as for the compensation, i know that the man will never be justly compensated at all. it has always been that way with us. you can dig the records of similar incidents. you will find that hardly will the ones like him be compensated justly. it seems that our laws have never taken into consideration this side of the consequences of the court pronouncements done wrongly.

that is a shame he should have gotten more then that here we have a price here for wrongifully locking a person up but i think it is 20,000 dollars if you serve time and you was found inocent.

THat's so wrong of the judge in the first place.. How can he sentence the poor farmer to jail without really proving he's guily in the 1st place?? And for that period of time spent behind bars, i believe he should get alot more compensation from the goverment.. Other than compensating for his income losses, which i think it's not even enough, they ought to pay him for being, physical and mentally tortured.. With all in, i guess the farmer should appeal and get about at least USD$10k.. lol =D

Hey, That is completely unfair. 10 whopping years of imprisonment, and he only got $250 compensation. That is madness, they wasted 10 years of his life and all he got was $250. I feel really sorry for him, he could have easily gotten $100,000 over 10 years of his life. Happy MyLotting!

I would first like to say what a silly amount of money to give someone for all that.It is an insult.All that time for being in prison and all that life he missed and all that living,did his wife wait for him and does he have any family and friends to come out to.I wonder if he was able to find a job and something he could call home.I fail to see how that little bit of money could ever do anybody any good and it should have been half a million dollars at least of enough to buy a nice house,land and a pension to live on it is totally ridiculous that is not enough money for anything worthwhile or set himself up in business or anything.Maybe it was because he was uneducated and poor they treated him so badly.It would have been laughhed out of court in this country that poor man how could they do something like that to anyone.

law in the Philippine's really sucks... many are convicted innocent... cause law is just for the riches not for the rugged like us! they can buy the law.. they can turn the case upside down.. they can finger point other people to be convicted.. the root of this is money and power! if you're rich and know many government officials you can easily ask for help whenever you need it. Philippines is rich but people have no discipline if we can just change the situation. I'd rather choose communism in our country rather than Democratic...

how awful and I bet he lost his farm too. Now what is he to do cant even buy it back?

The burden of proof should be on the prosecution and if they don't prove him guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt, he should never have gone to prison. Since he lost ten years of his life, I think the prosecutor's office--or the prosecutor himself--should have to pay the man five times the annual salary he could have made if he had stayed a free man. You can't give him back the years he lost but the ones he has remaining should be made easier.

Hi yuna15, That is disgusting, I wouldn't stand for that and sue them for a lot more money for the lost of third of your life, they wouldn't get away with it in this country. Tamara

The more science thta becomes available in crime solving the more people we will find in this situation. I also feel badly about the innocent being put in prison but from a tax payer's point of view, the government did house him and provide for all his care for all that time. Particularly if he was found guilty because of lack of science that is now available. Certianly no system is purfect and we must all stay alert for this type of inprisonment.

Php 10,000 doesn't much, it's not enough for the ten years in prison,he need much amount of compensation. Just imagine how many years of his life wasted in jail convicted for the crome which he is innocent, so that what they called due process of law and Bill of rights, which human rights has a lower value which only cost 10,000.

The farmer lost 10 years from his life.$250 compensation is just mockery to that farmer.He lost 10 years valuable time from his life.The lost 10 years could not be returned.It's a story of injustice.