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WhoIsNumberNone

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Tue Mar 10, 2015, 05:03 PM Mar 2015

TYT: Largest Exoneration Suit Awards Only $9.2 Million After 22 Years Behind Bars



"A D.C. Superior Court judge ordered the District government Friday to pay a record $9.2 million in damages to Kirk L. Odom, 52, who was wrongfully imprisoned for more than 22 years in the rape and robbery of a woman in her Capitol Hill apartment in 1981.

The amount, set by Judge Neal E. Kravitz, is the second — and largest — award in a case tried before a District judge under the District’s wrongful conviction law, which was approved in 1980. It also is one of the largest non-jury awards in an exoneration case in the United States.”*

*Read more here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/judge-orders-dc-to-pay-record-91-million-in-wrongful-conviction-case/2015/02/27/f54edaa6-beea-11e4-8668-4e7ba8439ca6_story.html
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TYT: Largest Exoneration Suit Awards Only $9.2 Million After 22 Years Behind Bars (Original Post) WhoIsNumberNone Mar 2015 OP
The $s awarded to a wrongfully convicted person erronis Mar 2015 #1

erronis

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1. The $s awarded to a wrongfully convicted person
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 05:38 PM
Mar 2015

Shouldn't be what we're looking at.

Yes, there should be some retribution from society for the loss of ones life, one's life with others, one's ability to make it or not, one's freedom. This is measured in the millions.

But a larger part that would give satisfaction to society and to the unjustly accused is to see every person that played an active part in denying due process of law, hiding evidence, lying to investigators, the investigators, the judges, the lawyers and other officials that purposefully and knowingly subverted justice - these are the ones that should be punished in a way that will deter them, or anybody else that wants to follow in their footsteps.

The perpetrators of this hoax of justice should pay the penalty. Any life they have left in their bones should be spent behind bars. Any income/bribes they made while dishonoring an innocent person should be paid out of their assets including those transferred to progeny.

Maybe I'm ranting on (my want) but this country (and most) don't hold the powers-that-be to enough scrutiny. Wall Street crooks, police departments, governments from high to low. It's only us defenseless peons that have to cough up the fines and have to spend the time.

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