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Compensating the Wrongly Convicted, or Not
Loaded on July 15, 2003
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2003, page 1
by Matthew T. Clarke
Filed under:
Police Misconduct,
Government Misconduct,
Judicial Misconduct,
Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct,
DNA Testing/Samples,
Damages,
Wrongful Conviction,
Wrongful Imprisonment,
Qualified Immunity,
Judicial Immunity,
Prosecutorial Immunity,
Sovereign Immunity,
Death Penalty/Death Row,
Death Penalty,
Death Row,
State Legislation,
Federal Legislation.
Location:
United States of America.
Hundreds of thousands of men and women are hidden from society—social failures convicted of felonies—behind concrete walls and razor wire in isolated parts of our country. Nestled among them are society's silenced victims—the wrongfully convicted.
Society is loath to admit its mistakes. Citizens would rather believe ...
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