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Posted: August 6, 2007 11:08 am
"It’s like a bad story on the twilight zone," David Pope tells a PBS reporter about his wrongful conviction. "The man wakes up in jail and he keeps waking up there and he can’t believe it’s really happening."
A recent episode of Life & Times, on Los Angeles PBS affiliate KCET, covered wrongful convictions and the lack of compensation for many exonerees nationwide.
In a guest blog on the show’s website, Innocence Project Co-Directors Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld write that compensation should come packaged with reforms:
Even in their first days of freedom, the euphoria that many exonerated people feel is tempered by a personal understanding of the larger problem and an unwavering resolve to help fix a broken system. They don’t want anyone else to be robbed of life and liberty as they were.
Watch the episode and read the full blog post here. (KCET)Read more about David Pope’s case and the case of Herman Atkins, who was also featured on the episode.
Read more about proposed exoneree compensation reforms.
Tags: Herman Atkins, David Shawn Pope, Exoneree Compensation