State Agrees to Pay $340,000 to Man Wrongfully Imprisoned for Six Years

Earl Bain was the face of an ultimately successful campaign to force the state to pay compensation for those wrongfully convicted.

A yearslong court fight between the state of Oregon and Earl Bain, a man who received a gubernatorial pardon after serving six years in prison for a crime prosecutors later said he didn’t commit, has ended: Bain will be paid around $340,000, according to an agreement dated April 25.

That’s roughly two-thirds of the maximum he’s entitled to under a new law, passed in 2022, that allowed people who had been wrongfully convicted to sue the state for compensation.

Source: State Agrees to Pay $340,000 to Man Wrongfully Imprisoned for Six Years