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Hawaii Supreme Court Revives Exonerated Prisoner’s Quest for First Payout From Wrongful Conviction Fund
Loaded on March 1, 2025
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2025, page 46
On September 27, 2024, the case of exonerated Hawaii prisoner Alvin Jardine drew the state Supreme Court into a battle for a payout—any payout—from the state’s wrongful conviction fund. The state has avoided liability so far with a tendentious reading of the law.
State lawmakers created Ch. 661B …
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