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Commentary From Florida

By Steve Hall

"Wrongful ways: Innocence commissions safeguard society," is the title of a Sunday Tallahassee Democrat editorial.  Last year, the Florida Legislature passed a law that automatically grants former inmates who have been found innocent $50,000 for each year they were wrongfully incarcerated, so long as they were never convicted of a prior felony offense. It's the state's automatic apology, of sorts, for when the judicial system has gravely erred.In recent years, at least 11 innocent Florida citizens have been wrongfully convicted and imprisoned. Nationwide, some 248 inmates have been exonerated by DNA evidence that showed their innocence.Last week in Bartow, James Bain joined the list of the newly liberated, wrongfully punished, and he appears to be entitled to $1...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 21, 2009 (boomark / email).