TOPEKA, Kan. — The Supreme Court of Kansas found that a former criminal defendant is not entitled to wrongful conviction compensation because his convictions were not overturned due to factual innocence. The man, an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, was convicted of sex crimes against two young children and received a life sentence, but the appeals court threw out the convictions because he had been charged for causing the victims to be sexually assaulted by another person and not by him. His convictions were overturned and he could not be tried again.
Read the ruling here.
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