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Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Hogan: Judges should decide how much to pay 5 wrongly incarcerated men

Gov. Larry Hogan proposed Wednesday using administrative law judges to revive the state’s practice of awarding payments to wrongly incarcerated individuals ― an action the state hasn’t taken in 15 years.

Under pressure from lawmakers to act on the cases of five men who collectively spent more than 100 years behind bars, the Republican governor said he believed administrative law judges are better qualified than the Board of Public Works ― which he chairs ― to determine how much to pay the former inmates.

Hogan also blamed Maryland’s Democratic-controlled legislature for not mandating specific payments for the men.
Lawyers representing the five men have asked the board to award $100,000 to each man for each year he spent behind bars. That would total about $12 million.
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10 comments:

Anonymous said...

I am so sick of everyday this Idiot is playing up to the Media with his dumb ideas! He is like the Joe Biden of Maryland, a stupid moron that should crawl back under the rock he was spawned under.
Juries are necessary to award these poor bastards, judges are all in the system together and cover each others asses!

Anonymous said...

Hogan is showing his Democrat side instead of showing leadership. If anything is to be awarded it should be a maximum of $35,000 per year unless they can prove their annual salary in excess of this amount, then use that annual salary times amount of years they were wrongly incarcerated. They were probably unemployed and being bums with no income.

Anonymous said...

Start your calculations with whatever they made in salary in the calendar year before going to jail...oh who am I kidding, that would be zero.

Anonymous said...

so we'll let judges who work for the state decide how much the state should pay? sounds right! NOT!

Anonymous said...

Send the bill to the DA

Anonymous said...

Hogan needs to deal with the illegal Alien crime problems in Montgomery county

Anonymous said...


Convicted by Democrat DAs and judges, perhaps? And Democrat jurors? Put a lien on the state Democrat party.

Anonymous said...

Northwest Woodsman: How about $100.00 and a bus ticket to their home of record. In May experience, it is highly probable that if these individuals are not guilty of what they were convicted for, they were operating on the fringe of society and are guilty of other things for which they had not been caught.

Anonymous said...

woodsman, to darn funny! so maybe we ought to let the state take you away for a while until they figure out whether or not you are guilty of something?
Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime.”" - Lavrentiy Beria, head of Joseph Stalin's secret police

lmclain said...

$35,000 doesn't sound much when you are fighting for your life and avoiding rape and violence EVERY DAY.
It's easy to talk that smack when you have never been in a fight or had to survive by yourself in a bad situation.
Would YOU take $35,000 to spend a year in a Baltimore prison???

There is the reality check all you holier-than-thou people need.
AND, no matter what you THINK they may have been guilty of, the crime they were CHARGED WITH was not their action.
That's called "not guilty"
So, now some of you want to go ahead and keep him in prison or pay him BS money because he MIGHT have something else wrong???
Polish that swastika, son.
Or do they just call you Heinrich?