what do you think of the bill that passed the senate to pay wrongfully incarcerated persons?”
Nowadays if someone languishing in prison for a crime that they didn’t do and by some miracle proof such as DNA appears which exonerates the prisoner, a lawsuit is inevitable. These are the worst possible lawsuits to defend because the plaintiff has really been harmed in a very emotionally grabbing way. If you get the right jury, the state can be hit with big, big damages. So as a way of limited the state’s exposure, laws like this have been passed around the country to keep cases away from juries. People who aren’t covered still have the right to go to court to sue for violations of their civil rights. Wrongfully convicted plaintiffs with a prior criminal history are not as sympathetic as truly innocent people who have been snatched away from home and hearth and incarcerated all because of some error of judgment on the government’s part. If the person has been locked up for a long time, the state will have a difficult time defending itself because of witness unavailability, destructio
