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Related: About this forumA Milwaukee man spent 24 years in prison for crimes he didn't commit. Now a state board says he
should get $1 million.A Milwaukee man who spent 24 years in prison for crimes he did not commit should be awarded $1 million for his wrongful conviction, a state board has decided.
Daryl Holloway was freed from prison in 2016 after DNA testing exonerated him in a rape case. He is the longest wrongfully convicted person released in Wisconsin
to date, according to the Wisconsin Claims Board.
"It's an apology," said Nathaniel Cade, one of Holloway's attorneys. "It's an acknowledgment that a lot of things went wrong."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/milwaukee-man-spent-24-years-221356292.html
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A Milwaukee man spent 24 years in prison for crimes he didn't commit. Now a state board says he (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Apr 2022
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Blue Owl
(54,762 posts)1. $1 million seems a little light, these days...
Deuxcents
(19,757 posts)2. A million dollars? Is that all?
Seems like Wisconsin has had a lot of problems lately. The taxpayers should be furious.
brush
(57,615 posts)3. Exonerated and freed 6 years ago and after all this time they offer just 1 million?
Should be way more than that. His life was stolen and they stalled for six more years to come up with that low-ball bullshit number.
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)4. Republicans wanted him to have to reimburse the state
for 24 years of room and board.