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Customertimes and PepUp Tech announce support for the Pennsylvania Innocence Project
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NEW YORK, March 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Customertimes and PepUp Tech are pleased to announce they are working with the Pennsylvania Innocence Project to improve its use of Salesforce to manage cases in support of its mission to fight for justice and secure exoneration for prisoners wrongly convicted.
Customertimes provided a directed donation to the Pennsylvania Innocence Project to leverage resources from PepUp Tech, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering the next generation of tech leaders through education focused on the Salesforce platform.
Gov. Wolf proposes paying anyone wrongly convicted $50K for every year spent in prison
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Posted Feb 12, 2021
Larry Trent Roberts leaves Dauphin County Prison in 2019 after a jury finds him not guilty of a 2005 Harrisgurg homicide for which he d already served 13 years in prison.
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Tucked into Gov. Tom Wolf’s 2021-22 budget plan is a proposal for Pennsylvania to pay people who were wrongly convicted $50,000 for each year that they were held behind bars.
Under Wolf’s plan, the funds would go to exonerees who have had convictions overturned on the grounds that they were innocent of the crime accused. The new program could apply, for example, to inmates who have seen convictions overturned and subsequently had charges dropped, or those who were acquitted in a new trial.
A Symbol of Resilience and Determination, Robert Outlaw Was Exonerated Today After Serving Nearly 16 Years For A Murder He Didn t Commit
Edward J. Foster, Esquire of Counsel with The Law Office of Alva & Shuttleworth, LLC Working with the Pennsylvania Innocence Project as well as Patricia Cummings, Chief of the Philadelphia District Attorney s Office Conviction Integrity Unit Has Overturned a Wrongful Conviction for Robert Outlaw an Innocent Man Convicted and Imprisoned for nearly Sixteen Years for a Murder He Did Not Commit.
On January 29, 2019 the Honorable Diana L. Anhalt of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County ordered that the 2004 conviction of Robert Outlaw be vacated and he be granted a new trial after hearing from multiple witnesses and examining evidence over a two-day evidentiary hearing that took place on November 15 and 16 of 2018.
Robert Outlaw, cleared of murder, is Philadelphia s 17th exoneree in 3 years inquirer.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from inquirer.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.