[teeman8r]

perhaps the compensation should come out of the salaries of the prosecuting attorneys and their pensions—not the taxpayers funds.

[VMI70]

“perhaps the compensation should come out of the salaries of the prosecuting attorneys and their pensions—not the taxpayers funds.”

...and the cops and the judges involved.

As my near and dear retired prosecutor friend used to laughingly say: “Getting a conviction on a guilty person is easy.”

[Gay State Conservative]

That's a good idea.Prosecutors who knowingly and deliberately seriously violate a defendant’s basic rights should be punished with fines...and in other ways.And if the violation result in prison time the punishments should be severe.

[Does so]

perhaps the compensation should come out of the salaries of the prosecuting attorneys and their pensions.

Prosecuting attorneys aspire to become Judges, and Judges (in Florida) keep their pensions even if found guilty!

Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck, New York Attorneys, founded the organization to help exonerate the wrongfully convicted.

Slicksters. Cases drag on for years, until a key witness dies (or is murdered).

An appeal is made for a new trial, and lacking the ability to proceed, the perp is "exonerated".

Exoneration is NOT the same as a finding of "Not Guilty".