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posted by: preceptlady (reply) post date: 01.03.06 (4:40 pm) I kinda doubt the judge would let you off even though you spent 20 years in prison. I feel that would be considered past and not applicable for the crime you had just committed. posted by: jesusisangry (reply) post date: 01.04.06 (3:50 am) Reply to: preceptlady Your 20 years time served should be applicable, you lost 20 years of life for something you did not do. How do compensate someone for takeing away 20 years of their life away? posted by: James (reply) post date: 02.23.06 (8:45 am) Does anyone know of any true stories where someone who was exonerated has sought revenge? posted by: jesusisangry (reply) post date: 02.23.06 (6:45 pm) Reply to: James I don't know? I google and found people who were exonerated, later sued the prosector but as for murder I don't know. I feel its only a matter of time till someone does it. posted by: Andrew Milner (reply) post date: 05.17.06 (8:44 pm) Punishing the innocent is a crime. |
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I was wondering, if someone is convictied of a crime such as premeditated murder, and defendent claims to be innocent and is in fact innocent. But get convicted anyway and is sent away to prison. Then 20 years later, new evidence appears that proves you are actually innocent. Now that you have spent 20 years of your life in prison, and all of sudden is exonerated. Since you lost twenty years of your life in prison for a murder, that you did not commit. What if you go out and kill the prosecutor? Who convicted you of murder. That, you said you did not commit. So you, murder the prosecutor for wrongful imprisonment, for a murder that you did not commit 20 years ago. Since you were convicted of a murder previously, and severed 20 years for a murder that you did not do. Now that you have actually committed murder in an act of vengence, will you still have to go to prison? I mean you went to prison for 20 years for a crime you did not do, later on evidence is found that clears you of this crime. You are so mad becuase of a wrongful conviction, you go out and kill the prosecutor who convicted you. Why would a new judge sentence you to another 20 years? You already served 20 years, for a murder you did not actually commit. Now, when you commit an actual premeditated murder? Do you think the judge will say, your sentence is already time served for the premeditated murder you did not commit. So you don't have to serve another 20 year sentence?
Under federal law only 5000
dollars is your compensation regardless of how many years you have spent in prison. Under existing federal law, a wrongfully imprisoned individual can receive a maximum of $5,000, total, in compensation after exoneration, no matter how many years they spent unjustly incarcerated. (28 U.S.C. § 2513
The link below lists a state by state breakdown on compensation.