‘We Don’t Owe You’: Florida Man Who Spent Over 30 Years In Prison After a Wrongful Conviction Denied Million-Dollar Compensation By State Because of Legal Loophole
A Florida man who was exonerated after serving 31 years in state prison for a crime he did not commit will not be compensated for the years he lost behind bars. Under Florida law, Thomas Raynard James should qualify for more than $1.5 million for his 1991 wrongful conviction for the murder of an elderly…