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Text - First - Compensation to Individual Erroneously Convicted, Sentenced, and Confined (The Walter Lomax Act) House: 1/31/2021: 1/31/2021: Hearing 2/10 at 1:30 p.m. Vote - House - Committee - Judiciary Click to view Recorded Media: House: 3/02/2021: 3/02/2021: Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary: House: 3/03/2021: 2/27/2021
Apr 15, 2021 · Earlier this week, Maryland passed several laws that will strengthen police transparency and accountability and advance justice for the wrongfully convicted. Among them are the Walter Lomax Act, signed on Tuesday, which improves Maryland’s existing law on compensation for wrongfully convicted people, and “Anton’s Law,” which makes most ...
Mar 7, 2023 · Though it would take one more year, the Maryland General Assembly in 2021 passed the Walter Lomax Act, which overhauled how the government compensates people who are wrongfully convicted, sentenced and incarcerated for crimes. The state has since paid out more than $7.52 million to seven exonerees — plus attorney fees and money for housing.
Oct 20, 2021 · Leslie Vass, now 64, became eligible for the payment under the Walter Lomax Act, a 2021 state law that created a formula to calculate how much money wrongfully convicted people should...
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Oct 13, 2022 · Then, legislators drafted the Lomax Act that passed unanimously in the General Assembly enacted last year. Now with questions looming if Syed will be a beneficiary of the state's new law, for Lomax, it’s a clear answer.
Jan 18, 2023 · PUBLISHED: January 18, 2023 at 11:20 a.m. | UPDATED: January 18, 2023 at 10:10 p.m. In one of his final acts as Maryland’s governor last week, Larry Hogan pardoned a man whose quest to be...
