Tax
Sep. 9, 2010
Who Pays for Unlawful Imprisonment?
Cities, states and officials are dishing out increasingly large settlements for wrongful convictions. What is the tax treatment of these awards? By Robert W. Wood and Christopher A. Karachale of Wood & Porter.
Robert W. Wood
Managing Partner
Wood LLP
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San Francisco , California 94111-3601
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Email: wood@WoodLLP.com
Univ of Chicago Law School
Wood is a tax lawyer at Wood LLP, and often advises lawyers and litigants about tax issues.
The mere thought of being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned is disturbing. So the dramatic increase in wrongfully convicted persons gaining their freedom is simultaneously comforting and distressing. Often these exonerees bring suit against the cities, states and officials whose actions precipitated their wrongful conviction. Under federal and state civil rights and compensation statutes or the common law of false ...
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