Los Angeles to pay $24.3M to 2 wrongly convicted men

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Los Angeles to pay $24.3M to 2 wrongly convicted men

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles City Council has agreed to pay a total of $24.3 million to two men who each spent decades in prison for murder before they were exonerated.

The council voted Tuesday to pay $16.7 million to Kash Register and $7.6 million to Bruce Lisker.

The men had filed unrelated but similar lawsuits against the city for wrongful convictions, challenging the police work that helped send them to prison.

Register served over 34 years for the shooting death of a 78-year-old man in west Los Angeles in 1979. In 2013, a judge overturned his conviction, saying police ignored the sisters of one eyewitness who said the woman was lying.

Lisker spent 26 years in prison for the stabbing death of his 66-year-old mother when he was 17. He was released in 2009.


-- (c) Associated Press 2016-01-20

[colinneil]

No amount of money can bring back the long years they spent behind bars.

[Grouse]

16M would do! Where do I sign up

[Grouse]

Sorry. Forgot to put up the IRONY warning flag

[phitsanulokjohn]

Money can obviously never replace the loss of liberty,but it will at least help.I wonder how much the 2 Burmese guys will be compensated if or when the Thai police have the guts to admit they arrested the wrong men?

[Dap]

Money can obviously never replace the loss of liberty,but it will at least help.I wonder how much the 2 Burmese guys will be compensated if or when the Thai police have the guts to admit they arrested the wrong men?

Never happen

[up2u2]

should have got $100M each.

[BigBadGeordie]

16M would do! Where do I sign up

34 years in jail, prior to getting 16M, you want to sign up for that........w4ank3r

[BigBadGeordie]

Sorry. Forgot to put up the IRONY warning flag

Bit, late, sorry also

[manarak]

Kash Register ???

[manarak]

Money can obviously never replace the loss of liberty,but it will at least help.I wonder how much the 2 Burmese guys will be compensated if or when the Thai police have the guts to admit they arrested the wrong men?

I'm convinced they are guilty, but not beyond all doubt.

[facthailand]

Do you think he changed his name before or after he went to prison?

[BigBadGeordie]

Money can obviously never replace the loss of liberty,but it will at least help.I wonder how much the 2 Burmese guys will be compensated if or when the Thai police have the guts to admit they arrested the wrong men?

I'm convinced they are guilty, but not beyond all doubt.

Reasonable Doubt, therefore....QED

[hawker9000]

WhenEVER something like this happens, the police & investigators who were involved, as well as the prosecutors, should be carefully investigated themselves for prosecutorial misconduct, and then vigorously prosecuted themselves if any evidence of such misconduct is found. And that would include the failure to follow up on exculpatory leads & evidence. Police, orosecutors, DAs, etc. are sometimes motivated by political considerations and the incentives to "close cases" and "get convictions" more than they are by the demand for justice. This can't be tolerated. Punishment must be harsh & include serious time commensurate with those who they falsely prosecuted.