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Texas Compensates Exonerees Unequally

Loaded on Oct. 15, 2012 by Matthew Clarke published in Prison Legal News October, 2012, page 46
Filed under: Civil Procedure, Damages, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment, State Legislation. Location: Texas.
by Matt Clarke

A succession of laws, cumulating in the most generous compensation package for wrongly convicted prisoners in the nation, has left Texas exonerees stuck at different levels of compensation depending on when they were proven innocent. Consequently, some earlier exonerees now claim they should receive compensation at the ...

 

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