An Empirical Reexamination of State Statutory Compensation for the Wrongly Convicted

Authors

Jeffrey Gutman, The George Washington University Law School

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2017

Status

Accepted

Abstract

An appropriate measure of a just society is how it treats those whom the government harms most severely. As frequent and well-publicized exonerations have been etched into the public consciousness over the last several years, a number of scholars have engaged in the study of compensation for such a group – those wrongly convicted. The general tenor of the resulting articles is one of disappointment.

GW Paper Series

GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2019-37; GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2019-37

SSRN Link

https://ssrn.com/abstract=3422444

Recommended Citation

Gutman, Jeffrey S., An Empirical Reexamination of State Statutory Compensation for the Wrongly Convicted (2017). Jeffrey S. Gutman, An Empirical Reexamination of State Statutory Compensation for the Wrongly Convicted, 82 Mo. L. Rev. (2017) ; GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2019-37; GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2019-37. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3422444