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DNA Exonerations in Georgia Result in Disparate Compensation Awards
Loaded on July 15, 2010
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2010, page 24
by David M. Reutter
Filed under:
Searches,
DNA Testing/Samples,
Wrongful Conviction,
Wrongful Imprisonment.
Location:
Georgia.
The disparity in compensation awards for prisoners exonerated by DNA evidence in Georgia demonstrates the need for evenhanded compensation laws.
Five wrongly convicted prisoners, Clarence Harrison, Robert Clark, Douglas Echols, Samuel Scott and Willie Otis “Pete” Williams, spent a combined 82 years in Georgia prisons for ...
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