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California Exonerees Not Quite Innocent Under the Law
Loaded on April 1, 2020
by Anthony Accurso
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2020, page 46
Filed under:
Wrongful Conviction.
Location:
California.
by Anthony W. Accurso
Many prisoners who get their convictions overturned, especially after serving lengthy prison terms, rightly expect to be compensated when they prove they never should have been prosecuted. However, exonerees in California often face a difficult battle for compensation, made all the more challenging by homelessness.
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