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| Subject: Pathetic: Brothers wrongly convicted in death get $750K Sat Sep 05, 2015 4:40 am | |
| RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The latest on two brothers wrongly convicted in North Carolina three decades ago in the killing of an 11-year-old girl (all times local): 10:15 a.m. Two North Carolina brothers have been awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars from the state, three decades after wrongful convictions in the killing an 11-year-old girl landed one on death row and the other in prison for a life sentence. On Wednesday, Deputy Commissioner J. Brad Donovan of the North Carolina Industrial Commission awarded Henry McCollum and his half brother Leon Brown $750,000 for their wrongful conviction and imprisonment for 30 years. Donovan says the funds will be available after a period of 15 days. That is required in case the state appeals. The state treasury can then disburse the money. Marc Snead of the state Department of Justice says the state agrees the men should get the money. McCollum appeared at the hearing, calm and wearing a gray suit, but Brown was not there.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/latest-brothers-wrongly-convicted-death-get-750k _________________ Anarcho-Capitalist, AnCaps Forum, Ancapolis, OZschwitz Contraband “The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”-- Max Stirner "Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it." -- Kurt Hofmann |
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