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Compensating the falsely convicted

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Coming on the heels of news that Governor Rick Perry will meet with the family of Timothy Cole (the falsely convicted inmate who was posthumously exonerated in February in an Austin court), there are a slew of innocence-related bills up today and tomorrow in both the Texas Senate and the House. I've mentioned the ones up this afternoon in the Senate, but there's good AP coverage in the papers about the exoneree compensation bill that will be heard tomorrow in the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee:State Rep. Rafael Anchia, D-Dallas, filed a bill to increase lump sum compensation from $50,000 to $80,000 for each year of incarceration. The bill also would require the state to pay some of the compensation in annuities, assuring exonerees a lifetime income...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 31, 2009 (boomark / email).

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