Atkins v. Victims Compensation and Government Clai
Plaintiff and respondent Timothy Atkins was incarcerated for 23 years after a jury found him guilty of murder and robbery in 1987. The trial court subsequently granted Atkins’s habeas corpus petition and vacated his conviction; the District Attorney declined to retry the case. In 2007, asserting his innocence, Atkins filed a claim for monetary compensation under Penal Code section 4900 with defendant and appellant Victims Compensation and Government Claims Board (Board), which denied his claim. Atkins challenged the Board’s denial by filing a petition for writ of mandate in the trial court. The trial court denied the petition. In a 2013 appeal, we reversed the trial court’s ruling and ordered the court to grant Atkins’s petition and order the Board to vacate its decision, hold a new hearing, and issue a written decision setting forth the decision’s factual and legal bases.
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