Supreme Court Rules Exonerated Death Row Inmate Cannot Receive Damages

Yesterday (was it yesterday or the day before?) I posted that the Supreme Court tossed out a jury verdict won by a New Orleans man who spent 14 years on death row and came within weeks of execution because prosecutors had hidden a blood test and other evidence that would have proved his innocence. He was awarded $14 million in damages (one mill for each year he was falsely imprisoned) and Justice Clarence Thomas spoke for the first time in 5 years to read the court's decision. Naturally that is suspicious. What? It's less heinous because a warped Republican black guy posing as an equal judge on a panel with 7 honky judges read the decision instead of super racist Scalia? Anyway read more about this frustrating, angering decision that will allow states to literally get away with attempted murder (if not actual murder) without any fear of punitive consequences at http://www.theroot.com/buzz/supreme-court-rules-exonerated-death-row-inmate-cannot-sue