Man with overturned conviction not eligible for exoneration payments, court rules
Although a man succeeded in overturning his felony conviction, he is ineligible to benefit from the law designed to compensate exonerated persons for their time served, the Colorado Court of Appeals decided on Thursday. In reaching its conclusion, a three-judge appellate panel determined the reason for the reversed conviction — a trial court judge neglected to issue instructions for ensuring a unanimous verdict — was the type of procedural misstep the legislature did not intend to include under the Exoneration Act of 2013. “The instructional error did not affect the presentation of ev...
Source: gazette.com