The insurance company for Spokane County will pay $2.25 million to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit that contended the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office engaged in witness-tampering and recklessness to wrongfully convict three men for a 2008 robbery. Spokane County …
A state Senate committee unanimously approved a bipartisan bill Wednesday to dramatically increase the payout for people wrongly convicted of crimes in Wisconsin. Such payouts are now capped at $5,000 for year spent behind bars, with a maximum of $25,000. …
A bipartisan group of state lawmakers is moving to dramatically restructure compensation rules for people wrongly convicted in Wisconsin, introducing a bill Thursday that would raise the maximum payout from $25,000 to $1 million and remove exonerees’ cases from the …
The Wisconsin Senate has approved a bill that would increase compensation for a wrongfully convicted man. Robert Lee Stinson spent 23 years in prison for a Milwaukee homicide he didn’t commit. Stinson asked the state claims board for $115,000, or …
Wisconsin lawmakers are working on a pair of bipartisan bills that would boost compensation for a man who spent more than two decades behind bars for a homicide he didn’t commit as well as for all wrongful convictions. The Wisconsin …
People wrongly convicted of crimes would eligible for compensation from the state under a bill passed in the Colorado House with near unanimous support. The bill passed the House on a 60-2 vote Tuesday and now heads to the Senate. …