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Paroled New Yorker Wrongfully Confined; Awarded $3,250

Loaded on May 1, 2020 by Kevin Bliss published in Prison Legal News May, 2020, page 53
Filed under: Wrongful Imprisonment, Overdetention. Location: New York.

by Kevin Bliss

Clarence Delaney, Jr. was granted $40 per day for 88 days of unlawful confinement by the State of New York, receiving a total payment of $3,250. He also was able to recover his 42 USC § 1983 filing fee, in a state Court of Claims ruling on ...

 

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