State Worker Files Claim; Thompson, Whose Conviction Was Overturned, Seeks $360,000

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Madison - A state worker who spent four months in a federal prison before having her conviction reversed on appeal filed a claim with the state Friday for nearly $360,000.

Georgia Thompson, 57, was convicted in federal court a year ago of steering a travel contract to Adelman Travel, whose officers had donated $20,000 to Gov. Jim Doyle's campaign. The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago overturned her conviction in April, freeing her from a Pekin, Ill., prison.

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State Worker Files Claim; Thompson, Whose Conviction Was Overturned, Seeks $360,000

"Payment will not undo the emotional trauma of such charges and wrongful incarceration, but it will help her put the pieces back together," Thompson lawyer Stephen Hurley wrote in the claim....

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