Exoneree Compensation in Hawai’i

State statute provides people who have been proven actually innocent with at least $50,000 per year of wrongful confinement. The law also provides for additional compensation of up to $100,000 if the court finds ‘extraordinary circumstances’ and up to $10,000 in attorney’s fees. Effective: 2016.

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