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How badly can you treat one person? Texas seems to have surpassed all with this, this is pathetic:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelo...ecades-denied-compensation-after-legal-glitch
Texas man wrongly put away for 18 years denied compensation after legal glitch
By Liz Goodwin
Wed Feb 16, 5:00 pm ET
much more at link~
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelo...ecades-denied-compensation-after-legal-glitch
Texas man wrongly put away for 18 years denied compensation after legal glitch
By Liz Goodwin
Wed Feb 16, 5:00 pm ET
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. The Comptroller's office decided the omission means Graves gets zero dollars, writes Harvey Rice at the Houston Chronicle, even though the prosecutor, judge, and defense all agreed at trial he is innocent.
much more at link~