Kathy Gonzalez was one of six innocent people who collectively spent 77 years in prison in the murder of 68-year-old Helen Wilson. DNA evidence exonerated the defendants, and they are about to collect a $28 million civil rights judgment against Gage County, which prosecuted them based on false confessions.
The county, though, has a shrinking population and limited financial resources, so it's 22,000 residents are going to have to pay the bill, with higher taxes. They are not happy about it and say that this happened decades ago and it's not fair.
But the county spent $2 million in legal fees fighting the verdict and they did imprison the six for that collective 77 years.
Should they pay? What do you think?
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness (more...)
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