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Bestselling novelist John Grisham returns with a work of non-fiction, co-written by Jim McCloskey, the founder of Centurion, an organization that advocates for the wrongfully-convicted.
A former News & Observer reporter and a lawyer for the wrongly accused team up to provide housing to exonerees. When the wrongly convicted are freed, where do they go? This NC farm may have answer.
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Centurion is the first organization to investigate cases of wrongful convictions in the US and Canada. In 1987, California businesswoman, Kate Germond, joined McCloskey and together they built an organization that has secured the release of 63 (as of 15 October, 2019) wrongly convicted men and women from all across the United States and Canada. [3]
It would be "up to the amount of $3,500" and equivalent to $61,500 in 2023, [5] "for services rendered [to] the state while in prison," rather than compensation for wrongful imprisonment. An award for the maximum amount of $3,500 was entrusted to the state public trustee , a Blount County probate court judge.
Wrongful convictions or Miscarriage of justice, cases when an actually innocent person is found guilty. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
The National Registry of Exonerations has recorded the 3,000th exoneration of a wrongly convicted defendant since 1989: the case of Reynaldo Munoz, framed for a Chicago murder. Three thousand ...