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DA must pay freed inmate, appeals court says; He is owed $14 million for 14 years on death row

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"DA must pay freed inmate, appeals court says; He is owed $14 million for 14 years on death row": The Times-Picayune of New Orleans today contains an article that begins, "The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to toss out a $14 million judgment against the Orleans Parish district attorney's office that a federal jury awarded last year to former death row inmate John Thompson."

And The Associated Press reports that "$14 million award to exonerated inmate upheld."

You can access Friday's ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.

Full post as published by How Appealing on December 21, 2008 (boomark / email).

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