(Syndicated to Kansas newspapers Feb. 8, 2016)
Sometimes, just about a quarter of the way into a legislative session, you see bills introduced that make you wonder what those legislators were thinking about last summer.
A handful of those bills…given a little thought…sounds like interesting ideas that we’re surprise nobody thought of before.
Say, that House bill after all the TV coverage of a Kansan who was incorrectly sentenced to prison for a murder that he didn’t commit. Now, he got a trial, and the evidence that would prove that he wasn’t guilty wasn’t readily available.
The solution? How about innocent people who are later found innocent and have spent years in prison get some compensation that was essentially stolen from their lives.