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Compensation Statutes Fail Those Wrongly Convicted

The Innocence Project is a national litigation and public policy organization that is fighting injustice such as compensation for exonerated prisoners. Imagine serving a decade or more for a crime you didn’t commit. Maybe even on death row. By what seems like a miracle, you find yourself exonerated on DNA evidence, and you are released.

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“Devastating” Effects of Conviction Bring Minimal Sentence

Because he viewed what he called the “devastating” consequences of being convicted of a felony were sufficient punishment, a federal judge in Brooklyn has chosen to ignore federal sentencing guidelines and impose just a year of probation as the sentence for a woman convicted of smuggling cocaine in this country and possessing the drug with

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