By PHILLIP RAWLS
Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama took the first step Tuesday toward paying nearly $119,000 to a church pianist and mother of two who was wrongfully jailed for nine months on a capital murder charge because of a botched autopsy on her newborn son.
The Senate’s General Fund committee unanimously approved the payment Tuesday for Bridget Lee, a 37-year-old from Carrollton in west Alabama.
“I feel blessed they are considering that, but there is no amount of money that will get my life back,” she said in a phone interview.