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Texas man wrongly put away for 18 years denied compensation after legal glitch–Source: The Look Out

Posted by Curmilus Dancy II (Butch) on February 17, 2011

A courtroom technicality has cost a wrongly convicted Texas man the compensation that would otherwise be due him for the 18 years he’d served in Texas prison–14 of which he spent on Death Row.

Anthony Graves would have received $1.4 million in compensation if only the words "actual innocence" had been included in the judge’s order that secured Graves’s release from prison. (Read more)

Posted in Anthony Graves, Compensation, Courtroom Technicality, Death Penalty Executions, Death Row, Texas, Wrongly Convicted | Leave a Comment »

 
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