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Davontae Sanford spent years in prison for a crime he was found to never have committed. Under a new Detroit law making wrongly convicted inmates eligible for $50,000 compensation per year of incarceration, Sanford’s new lawyers obtained a $408,000 award for him.

State legislatures cannot create obstacles that make it tough for people whose criminal convictions have been overturned to recover fines or restitution damages they have already paid, according to an April 19 U.S. Supreme Court decision.