False arrest and wrongful imprisonment lawsuit loans

Miscarriage of justice is a commonly used phrase to describe a failure of the judicial system. This normally occurs when an innocent person is wrongfully accused and prosecuted of a crime they did not commit. It can also apply to an error in the opposite direction when an individual commits a crime but is not prosecuted properly. All criminal justice systems have some type of means to overturn wrongfully convicted individuals. While possible, it is often extremely difficult to do and at best is a long and arduous practice. Sometimes it can take years or even decades for a wrongfully convicted person to see their sentence overturned, others have been sent to death row. “Miscarriage of justice” is a Type 1 error, meaning that it falsely identifies culpability. Typically the term is used to describe Type II errors as well, which involve courts or municipalities failing to find the correct party guilty. Wrongful convictions are cited in many arguments against the death penalty, especially with the rise in DNA evidence which has cleared many false convictions. The term “travesty of justice” is used when an unfair and ignored sometimes on-purpose miscarriage of justice occurs. This is when there is a deliberate or easily avoidable situation that leads to a wrongful conviction or a guilty individual not being prosecuted. These terms have important implications in today’s judicial system and normally fall to the appellate courts to correct a situation that would otherwise have a miscarriage of justice occur.

• The arrest of the wrong person;
• The arrest of a person without probable cause that that person committed a crime;
• Arrest without the mention of the suspect’s Miranda Rights;
• Arrest without just cause;
• Arrest with an arrest warrant that was obtained with false information given to the court by a police officer;
• Arrest by incompetence, personal gain, based on race, or pure malice.

• Lost wages
• Damage to reputation
• Embarrassment
• Physical harm incurred during or as a result of the wrongful arrest
• Illness incurred during or as a result of the wrongful arrest
• Wrongful death
• Punitive damages
• False imprisonment
• Excessive force
• Malicious prosecution
• Wrongful conviction

• In 2014, the Illinois police agreed to pay $40 million to a man that was released from prison after being wrongfully convicted for the 1991 rape and murder of a teenage girl.
• In November 2017, a California man received an award of $15 million as part of a civil rights lawsuit against the LA Sheriff’s Department. 
• In 2017, LA paid $5.2 million to end a legal battle with a man whose murder conviction was settled as he was innocent.
• In June 2018, a man was awarded a $10 million award for Wrongful Imprisonment. A man was wrongfully accused, convicted, and imprisoned because CA police made up and withheld evidence to frame him for a 2007 murder.
• In December 2018, a Missouri man was awarded $1.1 million after he was wrongfully convicted of a robbery he claimed was committed by someone who looked like him.

• In 2019, a Massachusetts man who served 27 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit was awarded $27 million by the federal jury.

• January 2021, a wrongful conviction settlement was achieved in Philly for $9.8 million to a man that was finally exonerated after serving almost 30 years in jail for the murder of a student.