ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A Maryland has board approved more than $421,000 in supplemental compensation for the first person in the United States who was sentenced to death and later freed from prison because of DNA evidence.
The Board of Public Works also approved $31,343 on Wednesday in attorneys fees in the case. Kirk Bloodsworth was sentenced to death and spent nearly nine years in prison for a Baltimore County murder he did not commit. He was exonerated in 1993. A year later, Maryland approved $300,000 to compensate him for the time he was wrongly incarcerated.
Earlier this year, Maryland updated the law for compensating the wrongly convicted.
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(EASTON, MD) – Maryland State Police are warning the public about a telephone scam in which the caller has cloned, or “spoofed,” a Maryland State Police telephone number in an attempt to scare victims into thinking they are the target of a criminal investigation or identity theft. More than 30 people reported yesterday that they received a call in which the caller ID on their phone showed “State Police” and […]
