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Missouri woman who served 43 years in prison freed after murder conviction overturned
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this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2024
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She spent her entire adult life in prison. How do you even come back from that.
She should be bankrolled by the state for the grievous harm it did to her, but she'll probably get nothing.
Hear me out.
Companies sell life insurance. Actuaries determine how much a policy costs. They can also determine what is most likely to have been a person's lifetime earnings based on a variety of metrics about that person.
An actuary should be able to look at who Sandra Hemme was at 20 years old, and make a determination of what her lifetime earnings would have been if she had not gone to prison. The State should pay her that amount.
Then multiply that figure by 10 or more. The state should be punished for that mistake and not want to make similar mistakes again.
Oh sure. "That amount" would be the compensatory part. The punitive part would be an entirely other thing.
You don't. Where are you going to work? What can you put on your CV? What work experience do you have? On top of that your ability to learn is a far cry of what you had in your 20s. If you have no family who'll take care of you, your future is utterly fucked. You're destined to live in powerty untill the end of your life.
On the other hand you might have a pretty good lawsuit against the state. Some states (all?) have laws defining maximum damages, so it might not be an amazing payout.
It won't fix the lost 40 years of her life tho
I didn't think you really could. From now on, everything will be a new experience. All things and persons she knew, have changed.
All things and persons she knows, are still in prison.
You have the very positive fact, that you were proven innocent and that you are out of prison.
But, she shouldn't have been there in the first place.
Btw, is she getting a fair amount of money for this or will this be like: Shit happens, sorry ma'am?