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Someone from the government should be in jail for this kind of oversight.
by unethical_ban 8mo ago
Someone from the government should be in jail for this kind of oversight.
- throwaway173738 8mo agoI think the taxpayers owe this lady at least a couple million if not more for the inconvenience they chose to put her through.
- throwaway17_17 8mo agoI agree, but our system doesn’t value things that way. Texas, which is one of the highest paying States for cases where intentional, fraudulent, or grossly negligent actions result in wrongful incarceration pay $80,000 dollars per year a person is locked up. But the caveat is that time only starts counting after you are sentenced, so wouldn’t even apply in TFA’s case.
- dghlsakjg 8mo agoThat's statutory damages on a wrongful conviction. This is an entirely different situation, and the amount would not be statutory.
- subscribed 8mo agoThat shouldn't be taxpayers. That should come from the malpractice insurance, similarly how doctors pay. After a while, when premiums shoot up, they'd start to behave
- sieabahlpark 8mo ago[dead]
- selbyk 7mo agoWho pays the insurance premiums?
- chocoboaus3 8mo agoits the only way this stops happening.