Documentary focuses on wrongly convicted East Palo Alto man - San Jose Mercury News
A new documentary detailing an East Palo Alto man's struggle to get compensation from the state after serving 12 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit raises questions about the treatment of exonerated convicts after their release.Technorati Tags: wrongful conviction, wrongfully convicted, prison, documentary, $100 a day
The 40-minute film, "$100 a Day," premiered Wednesday night on Santa Clara University's campus at a joint event of the Northern California Innocence Project and the Commonwealth Club of California. Rick Walker, the film's subject, spoke at a panel discussion after the screening, along with his lawyer Alison Tucher and Sacramento Bee reporter Jim Sanders.
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