Compensating people who are wrongfully convicted is a hard sell in some states
Michael Woolfolk attended a legislative committee in Georgia where lawmakers considered for a third year whether to ...
Jury Awards $120 Million to Illinois Men Wrongfully Convicted of Murder
John Fulton and Anthony Mitchell were teenagers when they were coerced into giving false confessions in a 2003 murder in ...
Jury awards $120 million to two men wrongfully convicted of 2003 murder
John Fulton and Anthony Mitchell both spent more than 16 years in prison before their convictions were overturned in 2019.
US Determined There Are 9 Wrongfully Detained Americans in Venezuela
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday determined that there are nine wrongfully detained ...
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Compensating people who are wrongfully convicted is a hard sell in some states
It was his second attempt to obtain compensation. Georgia is one of 11 states with no law on compensating people found to have been wrongfully convicted. Individuals seeking compensation take ...
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Challenges Growing in Efforts To Bring Home Americans Wrongfully Detained or Held Hostage ...
It can be difficult, particularly if the case has complex circumstances,’ the executive director of Hostage US, Liz Cathcart, ...
Wrongfully convicted request pathway for imprisoned people to appeal based on new evidence
In Missouri, unless a person is on death row, they cannot ask the courts to hear new evidence after they’ve been convicted.