A court has ordered Mexico's government to pay compensation to Jacinta Francisco Marcial, an Indian woman who spent three years in prison on a kidnapping conviction that was later thrown out by the courts.
The court voted 8-2 on Wednesday to order the Attorney General's Office to pay compensation to Francisco Marcial for the economic and personal damages she sustained because it "did its job badly."
Francisco Marcial, an Otomi Indian from the central state of Queretaro, was arrested in 2006 for allegedly kidnapping six federal law enforcement agents and was released from prison three years later . . .
