Wrongful Imprisonment Compensation Act

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A wrongfully convicted Detroiter will get $10 million for the six years he spent in prison before his murder conviction was thrown out.

The state of Michigan will pay $1.75 million to Louis Wright. Wright who spent 35 years in prison, was wrongly convicted of sexual assault. He was released in November 2023.

A 61-year-old Ionia man will receive 1.3 million dollars from the state. In 1986, David Gavitt was sentenced to life without parole for three counts of…

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is defending her decision to line-item veto legislation removing $10 million to compensate people wrongfully convicted. The money is…

In late 2016, former Governor Rick Snyder signed the Wrongful Imprisonment Compensation Act, which went into effect the following March.The law…

The state will soon need more money to pay for potential awards to those who were wrongfully convicted.A state law says people who meet certain criteria…

Lawyers for wrongfully convicted ex-prisoners are crying foul over the dismissal of their clients claims on the grounds of a missed deadline that they…