Vet’s family gets back pay with interest
The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Oct 23, 2008 17:38:27 EDT
ORLANDO, Fla. — It took six decades, but Samuel Snow’s family is finally getting his back pay with interest. The World War II veteran had been denied the money for being wrongly convicted of participating in a riot that led to his imprisonment and dishonorable discharge from the Army.
Snow’s widow, Margaret, and son, Ray, received a check for almost $28,000 on Thursday, 64 years after Snow was convicted of a crime he did not commit. Snow died in July, shortly after the Army apologized and reversed his dishonorable discharge.
Ray Snow compared his father to the Biblical hero Job — an upright man who was punished for no good reason.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/10/ap_snow_backpay_102308/
Showing posts with label wrongful confiction. Show all posts
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
Saturday, October 18, 2008
New York City to Pay $3.5 Million to Wrongfully Imprisoned Queens Man
City to Pay $3.5 Million to Wrongfully Imprisoned Queens Man
By COREY KILGANNON
Published: October 17, 2008
In one of the largest wrongful-conviction payouts in state history, New York City has agreed to pay $3.5 million to a Queens man imprisoned for 12 years after being found guilty of attempted murder.
The man, Shih-Wei Su, was convicted by a jury in 1992 after Queens prosecutors knowingly presented false testimony from the star witness, according to a ruling in 2003 by the United States Court of Appeals, which overturned Mr. Su’s conviction and condemned the Queens district attorney’s office.
But even after the settlement was finalized in federal court on Thursday, Mr. Su said he was still angry.
“The settlement doesn’t buy back the time I lost and doesn’t do real justice, but the amount shows the public something is very wrong here,” said Mr. Su, now 35 and a financial consultant in Manhattan. “I did 12 years on a wrongful conviction, and no one was punished for it.”
In a statement, a spokeswoman for the city’s corporation counsel called the settlement “in the best interest of all parties.”
Joel B. Rudin, Mr. Su’s lawyer, said that his research showed that about 80 Queens convictions over a 15-year period ending in 2003 had been reversed because of prosecutorial wrongdoing, but that those prosecutors had never been disciplined.
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By COREY KILGANNON
Published: October 17, 2008
In one of the largest wrongful-conviction payouts in state history, New York City has agreed to pay $3.5 million to a Queens man imprisoned for 12 years after being found guilty of attempted murder.
The man, Shih-Wei Su, was convicted by a jury in 1992 after Queens prosecutors knowingly presented false testimony from the star witness, according to a ruling in 2003 by the United States Court of Appeals, which overturned Mr. Su’s conviction and condemned the Queens district attorney’s office.
But even after the settlement was finalized in federal court on Thursday, Mr. Su said he was still angry.
“The settlement doesn’t buy back the time I lost and doesn’t do real justice, but the amount shows the public something is very wrong here,” said Mr. Su, now 35 and a financial consultant in Manhattan. “I did 12 years on a wrongful conviction, and no one was punished for it.”
In a statement, a spokeswoman for the city’s corporation counsel called the settlement “in the best interest of all parties.”
Joel B. Rudin, Mr. Su’s lawyer, said that his research showed that about 80 Queens convictions over a 15-year period ending in 2003 had been reversed because of prosecutorial wrongdoing, but that those prosecutors had never been disciplined.
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Thursday, October 16, 2008
Army pays for old injustice
Army pays for old injustice
Martin E. Comas | Sentinel Staff Writer
October 16, 2008
LEESBURG - The family of a World War II veteran who spent almost a year in a military prison after being wrongly convicted more than 60 years ago now may receive as much as $80,000 in back pay from the Army, according to U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson.
"It's easy. It's clear. It's the right thing to do," said Nelson, D-Fla., on Wednesday, a day after President Bush signed a military appropriations bill with a provision that awards back pay plus interest to veterans whose claims arise from the correction of military records.
Samuel Snow of Leesburg was among 28 black soldiers falsely convicted of sparking a riot during World War II that led to the lynching of an Italian prisoner of war at an Army base in Seattle. Snow, a skinny teenager at the time, served almost 12 months in a military prison and was dishonorably discharged.
Snow died in July at age 83 just hours after receiving an honorable discharge and an Army apology during a ceremony in Seattle. He always maintained that he had nothing to do with the riot, which broke out at Fort Lawton in August 1944.
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Martin E. Comas | Sentinel Staff Writer
October 16, 2008
LEESBURG - The family of a World War II veteran who spent almost a year in a military prison after being wrongly convicted more than 60 years ago now may receive as much as $80,000 in back pay from the Army, according to U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson.
"It's easy. It's clear. It's the right thing to do," said Nelson, D-Fla., on Wednesday, a day after President Bush signed a military appropriations bill with a provision that awards back pay plus interest to veterans whose claims arise from the correction of military records.
Samuel Snow of Leesburg was among 28 black soldiers falsely convicted of sparking a riot during World War II that led to the lynching of an Italian prisoner of war at an Army base in Seattle. Snow, a skinny teenager at the time, served almost 12 months in a military prison and was dishonorably discharged.
Snow died in July at age 83 just hours after receiving an honorable discharge and an Army apology during a ceremony in Seattle. He always maintained that he had nothing to do with the riot, which broke out at Fort Lawton in August 1944.
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