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I think the taxpayers owe this lady at least a couple million if not more for the inconvenience they chose to put her through.
by throwaway173738 7mo ago
I 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 7mo 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 7mo agoThat's statutory damages on a wrongful conviction. This is an entirely different situation, and the amount would not be statutory.
- subscribed 7mo 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 7mo ago[dead]
- selbyk 7mo agoWho pays the insurance premiums?