Judge awards $100 million for unjust convictions
Reuters reports that a federal judge in Boston has ordered the United States government to pay $101,750,000 in damages to two men and the estates of two other men who were wrongfully convicted of murder after the FBI withheld evidence to protect a mob informant. Three of the men were sentenced to death, but their sentences were commuted to life sentences in 1972 (presumably based upon Furman). Two of the men died in prison and the other two were wrongfully incarcerated for 33 years.