Thats not nearly enough money to make up for all that lost time.
Judge orders government to pay $101M to men wrongly imprisoned
Associated Press - July 26, 2007 12:23 PM ET
BOSTON (AP) - A federal judge has ordered the government to pay more than $101 million in the case of 4 men who spent decades in prison for a 1965 murder they didn't commit after the FBI withheld evidence of their innocence.
The judge ruled that the FBI encouraged perjury, helped frame the four men and withheld for more than three decades information that could have cleared them. The judge also called the government's argument that the FBI had no duty to get involved in the state case "absurd."
2 of the men and the families of 2 men who died in prison argued that Boston FBI agents knew mob hitman Joseph "The Animal" Barboza lied when he named the men as killers in the 1965 death of Edward Deegan.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Associated Press - July 26, 2007 12:23 PM ET
BOSTON (AP) - A federal judge has ordered the government to pay more than $101 million in the case of 4 men who spent decades in prison for a 1965 murder they didn't commit after the FBI withheld evidence of their innocence.
The judge ruled that the FBI encouraged perjury, helped frame the four men and withheld for more than three decades information that could have cleared them. The judge also called the government's argument that the FBI had no duty to get involved in the state case "absurd."
2 of the men and the families of 2 men who died in prison argued that Boston FBI agents knew mob hitman Joseph "The Animal" Barboza lied when he named the men as killers in the 1965 death of Edward Deegan.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.