What Do States Owe People Who Are Wrongfully Convicted?

March 14, 2017

In April 2000, 23-year-old Floyd Bledsoe sat in an Oskaloosa, Kansas, courtroom awaiting the verdict in his first-degree murder trial in the death of his 14-year-old sister-in-law, Zetta Camille Arfmann. Throughout the trial, he maintained his innocence. But the jury entered the courtroom and declared him guilty. Continue reading.