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Florida Allows Compensation of Wrongfully Convicted Man 25 Years after Release
Loaded on Aug. 10, 2016
by David Reutter
Filed under:
Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct,
Wrongful Conviction,
Wrongful Imprisonment.
Location:
Florida.
The Florida Legislature passed a bill in the closing minutes of its 2014 session that allows a man who served 21 years on a wrongful conviction to seek up to $2 million in compensation.
James Richardson was convicted in the 1967 poisoning deaths of his seven children. Richardson, …
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