Justice Facts

Ricky Jackson is 18, headed to death row for a crime he did not commit. The only witness is a 12-year-old boy whose story was fed to him by police. He walks out 39 years, 3 months, and 9 days later - the longest wrongful sentence in US history. Cleveland pays him $7.2 million. He forgives the kid.

Alice Roque worked at Octapharma Plasma for 19 years. At 74, they moved her to a standing role. Her back hurt, so she asked for a chair - twice. Her supervisor suggested she resign instead. Then they fired her. A San Diego jury awarded her $11.2 million. She hadn't asked for a single dollar in lost wages.

A mother of three walked out of an Alabama Walmart with Cap'n Crunch, bread, and Christmas lights. The scanner froze. **Walmart had her arrested.** When the charge was dropped, they sent collection letters anyway - demanding $200 from a woman who owed them nothing. She sued. A unanimous jury handed her $2.1 million. The scanner was $48.

A school groundskeeper spent years mixing and spraying Roundup and was twice soaked to the skin when the equipment failed. When he was diagnosed with terminal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, he sued Monsanto. A San Francisco jury awarded him $289 million in the first-ever Roundup trial - $250 million of it punitive. The day the verdict landed, Bayer lost $14 billion in stock value.

Ryan Ferguson spent nearly 10 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit - convicted after a witness claimed he 'remembered' the night through dream-like flashbacks. Both witnesses later admitted they lied. An appeals court freed him, then a jury handed him $37.9 million.

Serena Williams was booed throughout her 2001 Indian Wells final. Her father said the crowd directed racial slurs at him from the stands. She refused to return for 14 years. When she finally returned in 2015, the crowd gave her a standing ovation. She cried.