Greedy Trial Lawyer
Why Not Compensate The Wrongly Convicted?
Category: Torts For Our Time
"More and more, we hear about wrongly convicted prisoners being released due to new-found DNA evidence. Do these individuals have any legal recourse for losing so much of their lives to a flawed justice system? Probably not, at least if this Seventh Circuit decision is any indication." Lead sentences from Decision of the Day. Must we protect the public treasury by denying compensation to those innocent people who have been wrongly deprived of their liberty, sometimes for years?
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