Tampa expected to settle with man who spent 37 years behind bars after wrongful conviction
The City of Tampa is trying to make things right with a man who served 37 years behind bars for a murder he never committed.
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The City of Tampa is trying to make things right with a man who served 37 years behind bars for a murder he never committed.
Robert DuBoise sued the city after he spent 37 years in prison for a Tampa murder he did not commit.
TAMPA, Fla. — Andrew Warren, the Democratic Hillsborough County state attorney whose outspokenness led Gov. Ron DeSantis to yank him from elected office, will not run to reclaim the post
The price of freedom is pathetically low in Florida, and the cost of injustice is much too high. The going rate is $50,000 for every year people languish in prison before being exonerated for crimes they did not commit. That’s less than $6 an hour, much less than the minimum wage. The necessity for this reality is a deeply flawed system where wrongful convictions are commonplace. There have ...
"If this state is determined to have a death penalty, we should do everything in our power to ensure it is not wrongfully imposed and is constitutional when it is imposed," writes retired Supreme Court Justice Barbara J. Pariente. "Instead, the state of Florida just implemented measures that I fear will do just the opposite."