Current Events > Innocent Man gets $2.2 Million compensation after spending 13 years in prison.

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Swedish man who was last year found innocent of murder after spending 13 years behind bars is to receive 18m Swedish kroner ($2.2m) in compensation, the largest such payment in the countrys legal history.

When Kaj Linna was found innocent by the Swedish Court of Appeal and released last June, it was a huge victory, both for him, and for Swedish journalists Anton Berg and Martin Johnson, whose Spr, meaning trace or evidence podcast, helped reopen the case.

His lawyer Thomas Magnusson told the Expressen newspaper that Swedens Chancellor of Justice had agreed the sum on Good Friday.

This is a Gentlemans agreement, he said. The negotiations have taken place behind doors between Kay Linna and the Chancellor. Kay Linna has accepted the officer and is satified with that compensation level.

In the days after Linnas release Magnusson said he aimed to win between 20m and 25m kroner for his client, who is now living in Mallorca with his wife Petra Wllrich, who was his Spanish teacher in prison.

Linna was found guilty in 2004 of murdering a man in Kalamark, outside the city of Pite in northern Sweden during a robbery.

Mr Linna was initially sentenced to life in prison in 2004 for the brutal murder and robbery of Robert Lindberg, in an attack , which also left his brother Sune injured.

Sune, who was found by social services two days later, told police he had recognised the voice of a man who had previously done business with the brothers.

That man, who had an alibi, instead mentioned Linna as a potential suspect and pointed police in the direction of another man who had more information, reported Swedish media last year.

The sole evidence tying Linna to the crime was the testimony of that man who then became the main witness at the trial and said Linna had told him of plans to rob the brothers.

Linna was then found guilty, even though evidence from the mans mobile phone showed that he had not been where he had claimed to be at crucial moments.

When Anton Berg and Martin Johnson interviewed the man for their podcast, he then gave a very different story from the one he had given in court.

Berg and Johnsons audio was submitted to the court as evidence to push it to reopen the case.

Full Article: https://www.thelocal.se/20180330/swede-gets-22m-for-13-years-wrongly-imprisoned



And people still support the death penalty.
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Not enough money
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16-BITTER posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

And people still support the death penalty.

Yeah, for like McVeigh-tier crimes.

And if we get the wrong guy?

Kill some innocent guy and then go "Ooops, doh well lol" 12 years later?
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I think the USA just says "sorry" when we wrongfully imprison someone for years.
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This should be the case in the US as well. Good job Sweden

TommyG663513 posted...

I think the USA just says "sorry" when we wrongfully imprison someone for years.

Punctus_Pilot posted...

This should be the case in the US as well. Good job Sweden

Erm

The US gives wrongly inprisoned people cash too
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Not sure if worth it

UnfairRepresent posted...

Erm

The US gives wrongly inprisoned people cash too

Not all states. Earlier this month a man in Kentucky was released after 15 years and got nothing.

Even in states where they do, it's not remotely close to a reasonable amount of money. It should absolutely be upwards of $100,000 a year.

UnfairRepresent posted...

TommyG663513 posted...

I think the USA just says "sorry" when we wrongfully imprison someone for years.

Punctus_Pilot posted...

This should be the case in the US as well. Good job Sweden

Erm

The US gives wrongly inprisoned people cash too

Um no, nothing even close to what this Swedish man got
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Punctus_Pilot posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

Erm

The US gives wrongly inprisoned people cash too

Not all states. Earlier this month a man in Kentucky was released after 15 years and got nothing.

Even in states where they do, it's not remotely close to a reasonable amount of money. It should absolutely be upwards of $100,000 a year.

Gonna need a source for the Kentucky one.
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