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Committee backs bill to require notice and streamline compensation process for wrongfully convicted
Summary
The committee voted to pass SB 169 with amendments that add notice requirements when convictions are vacated or reversed and provide a mechanism for interim payments and other procedural changes; the Attorney General raised statutory and constitutional concerns, while defenders and innocence advocates urged expedited relief for exonerated people.
The Senate Committee on Judiciary voted to pass SB 169 with amendments designed to notify eligible persons when convictions are reversed or vacated and to clarify procedures for compensation claims under Hawaii’s wrongful-conviction law.
SB 169 would require the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DOC) to provide written notice to certain persons regarding the ability to file a claim for redress under existing wrongful-conviction statutes. The committee’s amended recommendation replaces the phrase “actually innocent” with procedural language tied to judgments that have been reversed or vacated (or pardoned consistent with innocence) and adds directions for courts to make specific findings when vacating or reversing a conviction so that…
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