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Virtue Doesn't Keep the Lights On

Never expect compensation for a good deed.  Rarely will those you help ever even bother to thank you - let alone pay you.  Just ask Anne Danaher.Anne Danaher, Erin Brockovitch style, was a non-lawyer who spent thousands of hours fighting for a cause she believed was just.  Nevertheless, she is being denied just compensation for her work:Danaher was a prison barber in the Iowa Department of Corrections. She cut the hair of men doing long stretches of time. And she listened to the men. Something about what Terry Harrington told her didn't make sense. He wasn't at the crime scene. He had an alibi. No one could have seen him present at the site of the murder. Danaher listened to Harrington and she believed him.Danaher spent nine years of uncompensated time working on the Harrington case, eventually accumulating 27 boxes of material...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on February 08, 2010 (boomark / email).