Texas pays $450,000 for wrongful conviction

[madmusic]

Local police and county prosecutors make the mistakes, but state taxpayers must foot the bill for wrongful convictions in Texas - $25K for each year an innocent person is incarcerated. The most recent wrongfully convicted Texan to receive compensation, Arthur Mumphrey, from Houston, will receive $450,000 after spending 18 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit.

If the state must pay the freight when prosecutors make mistakes, the Legislature has a growing financial incentive to make sure fewer innocent people are convicted who must be compensated. This is another instance where a victim misidentified the offender, in this case corroborated by a mendacious snitch.

more: http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2006/11/texas-pays-450000-for-wrongful.html

That's what it should be in every state, $25K per year, at least.

[Stargleamer]

1. and for wrongly executed prisoners. . .

what will Texas pay then? What are the odds that out of all the prisoners * gave the go ahead to execute, that one of them was innocent?

[Scooter24]

2. Not enough...

how can you put a price on 18 years of your life? Who knows what he might have been capable of. :(

[madmusic]

3. A lot of states don't pay anything...

Or if they do, it takes and act of God to get them to pay up.