Lawmakers approve $5.75 million wrongful incarceration claim

Lawmakers approve $5.75 million wrongful incarceration claim

On Friday, Connecticut’s Judiciary Committee met and voted on whether to approve a $5.75 million wrongful incarceration claim for Maceo Troy Streater. The meeting followed a re-examination of Streater’s claim by Claims Commissioner Robert Shea, after the Judiciary Committee questioned the methods used in issuing his recommendation back in February. “Mr. Streater spent 23 years in Connecticut prisons for a crime he didn’t commit,” said Alexander …