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Judiciary committee advances claims commissioner's award to Maceo Streeter after contested hearing
Summary
After testimony from family members and the claims commissioner, the Judiciary Committee voted to confirm the claims commissioner's recommended wrongful-incarceration compensation award to Maceo Streeter, following extended questioning about evidence, witness recantations and the applicable statutory standard.
Anxiety and competing accounts of credibility filled a Judiciary Committee hearing Friday as members voted to confirm the claims commissioner's recommendation that the state pay compensation to Maceo Streeter for wrongful incarceration.
Alexander Taubus, attorney for Streeter, told the committee Streeter "spent 23 years in Connecticut prisons for a crime he didn't commit," and asked members to adopt the claims commissioner's "well reasoned, extremely detailed, and thorough" decision.
The claims commissioner, Robert Shay, explained his office had reopened Streeter's claim after the committee asked for a fuller explanation and held an evidentiary hearing. Shay said the office applied the wrongful-incarceration statute, which he cited in the record as "54 dash 1 0 2 u u," and listed 16 items in the decision that together, he said, constituted substantial evidence consistent…
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