Defendant Acquitted After Retrial Not Entitled To Compensation From State
The Michigan SCT declined to hear the plaintiff’s appeal, thereby affirming that the plaintiff wasn’t entitled to compensation for the 9 years he spent in prison before being acquitted of sexual assault.
Will WICA Soon be Modified? Michigan’s Supreme Court Set to Weigh in on Tomasik Appeal.
No criminal justice system is perfect: although our state’s criminal justice system is a great regulatory strong-arm, sometimes innocent people are convicted by mistake.