If you were imprisoned for a major crime you didn't commit?

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I Wouldn't "EXPECT" It, but...** It would be nice to have something to start my life over again with...as I'm sure I would have lost friends, job, reputation, perhaps a house or business... I would want sizable compensation if the State had been negligent, rushed to judgement, with held evidence, or if they coerced a confession I was in jail for 4 days as a teenager and believe me, I understand how someone could confess under duress!. If my conviction was due to mistaken id or an eye-witness which are usually wrong I wouldn't care if the compensation was huge, just enough to get me started in life again...maybe for some counseling, health issues directly from imprisonment, and perhaps college money. But my life would be under my control.

I'd be most interested in being exonerated...if I got no compensation, I'd still be grateful to be out. I think I might then want to work with others in the same predicament. Sources: Thank God it wasn't a life lesson... SeekerSeeking's Recommendations Project may find innocence of inmates.(gher Education)(University of Oregon students hope to begin an Oregon Innocence Network): An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) Amazon List Price: $5.95 Innocence project overturns wrongful rape conviction through DNA testing.(Falsely Accused): An article from: The Forensic Examiner Amazon List Price: $5.95 FSU students volunteer for Innocence Project.

: An article from: Florida Bar News Amazon List Price: $5.95 I'd volunteer too...

Most people do... Generally, people who were wrongly imprisoned file lawsuits against the city/county/state whose justice system mistreated them. In most cases, those are settled out of court, as defendants strive to avoid further bad publicity. How much is enough in these cases?

This is really not the question. The question that courts would try to answer is, what were the actual damages. Generally, the plaintiff can claim the loss of several years worth of earnings, the cost of legal representation, and, in many cases, lifetime impairment of earning ability.

Those would be compensatory damages, but courts may also award punitive damages, which may be several times greater than compensatory damages.

Fight the Man! Have you watched Life on NBC? He does get compensation, although it was for 12 years, and since he was a cop, he had a rough time in prison.

nbc.com/Life/ "Mistake" is quite the euphemism! I recently had a life experience (no, not incarceration-related) that put me in touch with my inner rebel. I do think it’s important to remain calm and accepting most of the time, but it would be hard to take something like that philosophically.

I fought my job with a sense of futility for maybe 3 months... after 5 years, would I become more accepting? I don’t know myself that well, but my guess is, I’d be mad again when it became an "issue" again (when people started talking about letting me out). I also think this country is "sue-happy" and that in the greater scheme, the justice system would not make such a mistake on purpose.

However, 5 years of my life is a huge percentage of the time I’ve been alive (even more so if you, like me, discount the first 5 years, which I don’t remember much about). And there’s a difference between blaming the system and wanting them to take responsibility. I’d try to avoid the whole avenging angel thing, but yes, I would want compensation for my lost time.

How much? I’d have a lot of living to catch up on. I’d take enough that I could do anything I wanted and not even worry about working for 5 years.

And I’d want the amount I would have saved had I been able to work for those 5 years. Plus, I’d take a little extra so that I could do some good in the world when I rejoined it. I’m hesitant to name a dollar amount, but those qualifications would add up to a decent sum, wouldn’t they?

Realistically, how often do cases like this come about? If it’s very often, we would need to change the system. It would also be difficult to give everybody the compensation they deserve, so I’d need to settle for a more token amount..

You bet I would! Proper compensation would be a trip back in time to the day before I was arrested, and waking up the next morning the same age I was when it happened and reading in the paper that the right person had been picked up for the crime. That being impossible, I would get the best lawyer available, even someone who would charge me half of whatever award I got from the state, and sue for the largest amount possible without it being so high it might prejudice a jury against me.

If I didn’t win the case, I would become a constant writer of letters to the editor, a blogger, and use any other means available to let the public know what had happened. If I did win, I would take my share of the money and donate half of it to The Innocence Project, or some other organization which has the goal of getting innocent people out of prison, and off of death row. I would try not to be bitter, and I would try to live the rest of my life greatly appreciating my freedom.

I don’t know how that would work out. I think an injustice like this is one of the very worst things that can happen to anyone and can't help adversely affecting the remainder of your life. English juris "Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."

The ratio 10:1 has become known as the "Blackstone ratio. " I want a justice system where even one innocent person is never falsely convicted. That’s probably as impossible as my concept of "proper compensation" but the higher you set the goal, the better your performance even if you don’t reach the ideal.

And I think that legal systems that convict innocent people should pay high compensations to the victim. This is one way to get them thinking that they should perhaps be more careful. Sources: Long held belief..

It depends on why I was sent to jail wrongfully "Expect" is a tough word. What I'd want, what would be due to me, and what I'd actually expect to get would be three very different things. What I'd "expect" is squat.

I fully expect them to say, "Gosh, we couldn't possibly have known that you weren't able to singlehandedly drag a 350 pound man up 50 flights of stairs in 20 minutes. Our bad. Have a nice what's-left-of-your-life."

A quick survey of articles about wrongful imprisonment suggests that courts set a pretty high standard on such things. Which does make some sort of sense. A jury is going to get thing wrong on occasion.

If they just happened to have made the wrong decision based on the evidence they got, I'd certainly want some sort of restitution, but I know I'm not going to get it. But judges will give money to people who were framed, like the judge who gave $1 million to a man who did 3 years after police concocted evidence against him, or $101 million to four men framed by the FBI. The common thread seems to be that you can get money if they actually deliberately made up evidence against you, and squat if they just happened to be wrong.As for enough... there isn't enough.

Money just isn't an issue; you can't buy that sort of thing. They can't even really compensate me for the monetary loss: not just loss of wages, but loss of reputation, loss of opportunity, objects lost in the intervening time because I couldn't manage them, etc.I suppose a million dollars sets me up to spend the rest of my life getting over it, if I spend it carefully. It may well take that long, or longer.

A rich man and poor man commit the same crime. Rich man get's $10,000 fine. Poor man=1 yr.Jail.

Fair?

A rich man and poor man commit the same crime. Rich man get's $10,000 fine. Poor man=1 yr.

Jail. Fair?

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.