ExonComp

Exoneration: Compensation: Exoneree Compensation: Innocence project
 * Definition: When one who has been accused, and found guilty of a crime is later found innocent due to various circumstances.
 * A payment given/received as part of a settlement for either injury, death, or various other circumstances
 * When someone is found innocent of a crime after serving their sentence or a portion of a sentence and receives payment to attempt to make up for the time they served.
 * The majority of people exonerated after proving their innocence have not been compensated for the injustice they suffered and the time they spent incarcerated.
 * Statutes providing for some form of compensation for the wrongly convicted are in place in [|25 states plus Washington, D.C.], but even some of these laws don’t meet society’s moral obligation to help exonerated people recover from the injustice they suffered and the years of freedom they lost.
 * Rarely is their criminal record cleared.
 * Recommends
 * Paying people 50,000 per year of false incarceration.
 * Provide re-entry funds, access to job training, educational, health and legal services after an innocent person’s release.

States:

__California:__California provides a maximum of $100 per day of wrongful incarceration which is available within 6 months after acquittal, pardon, or release. Claimant must show he did not "contribute to the bringing about of his arrest or conviction for the crime with which he was charged", in order to receive the compensation.

__North Carolina__ Any person with a pardon for innocence is eligible for $50,000 for each year of wrongful incarceration with a maximum of $750,000. Also North Carolina includes provision of job skills training and education tuition waivers.

Cases

Nicholas Yarris Drew Whitley Year of conviction: 1989 Charge: Murder with a second degree conviction Sentence served: 16.5 years Exonerated: May 1 2006 Layout: On an ordinary August morning around 3:00 am, a 22 year old McDonald's manager was completing her shift when she was confronted and killed by a man demanding money. This man was wearing a nylon mask, and a woman's trench coat. These items were found when the perpetrator was seen fleeing the scene shedding his clothes. When the victim tried to flea from the perpetrator, he pistol whipped her and shot her in the back killing her instantly. Return to the Innocents Page | Return to Homepage | [|Innocence Project Homepage]
 * Accused and convicted for raping and murdering a saleswoman.
 * There was DNA evidence
 * Became the prime suspect after assaulting a police officer over a traffic violation
 * Accused a friend but police ruled him out, he became the prime suspect
 * Sentanced to death, continued to claim innocence even though DNA couldn't exclude him and eye witnesses told it was him.
 * Fingernails and sperm were from the same person and in 2003 it was proven it wasn't him.
 * He was compensated post-exoneration or release.