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Is It ENOUGH? | Man Awarded $9.2 Million For Wrongful Conviction After Spending 22 Years in Prison & Contracting HIV While There…

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The first question is; is this enough to compensate this man for the troubles of spending almost half of his life in prison—and coming out with HIV all because he was convicted for a crime he didn’t commit?

Last week, a D.C. Superior Court judge ordered the District government to pay a record $9.2 million in damages to Kirk L. Odom, 52, who was wrongfully imprisoned for more than 22 years in the rape and robbery of a woman in her Capitol Hill apartment in 1981.

The money is really a lot but thinking about how long this man possible has to live considering his age and health, is it really worth anything to him? It may seem like he has finally gotten justice but I don’t know of anyone who would want to go through this and be given this amount—and boldly call it JUSTICE.

According to WashingtonPost;

“The amount, set by Judge Neal E. Kravitz, is the second — and largest — award in a case tried before a District judge under the District’s wrongful conviction law, which was approved in 1980. It also is one of the largest non-jury awards in an exoneration case in the United States.

Mr. Odom spent more than twenty-two years of what should have been the prime of his adult life behind bars for a crime he did not commit,” Kravitz wrote in a 37-page opinion that recounted Odom’s “profound” physical and psychological suffering over the decades that included several prison rapes, his diagnosis with HIV — the virus that causes AIDS — suicide attempts, depression and family estrangement.”

Life is really unfair…



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