state forgot to ask him to report to jail

[Pi1otguy]

For 13 years they forgot to ask him to report to prison. He even filed taxes and such under his real name and address. Sounds "cruel and unusual" to me.

http://news.yahoo.com/armed-robber-never-told-report-prison-195146743.html

After he was convicted of armed robbery in 2000, Cornealious Anderson was sentenced to 13 years behind bars and told to await instructions on when and where to report to prison. But those instructions never came.

So Anderson didn't report. He spent the next 13 years turning his life around — getting married, raising three kids, learning a trade.
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Megaro described Anderson as a model citizen — a married father who became a carpenter and started three businesses. He paid income and property taxes and kept a driver's license showing his true name and address. When he was pulled over for a couple of traffic violations, nothing showed up indicating he should be in prison.

Is there even a point to this any more?

 

[comanchepilot]

He is definitely served his time if he's been married and working and paying taxes . . .

 

[Cpt_Kirk]

He is definitely served his time if he's been married and working and paying taxes . . .

Ha. Ain't that the truth.

 

[cowman]

How does this happen? I always thought that once convicted it would be straight off to prison. Wouldn't a lot of people just run off at that point if they were already convicted and not being held?

And now that it has happened why can't the state's governor just pardon him? There wouldn't seem to be any reason to keep him in jail now.