26 USC 139F - Certain amounts received by wrongfully incarcerated individuals

U.S Code last checked for updates: Nov 22, 2024

§ 139F.

Certain amounts received by wrongfully incarcerated individuals

(a)

Exclusion from gross income

(b)

Wrongfully incarcerated individual

For purposes of this section, the term “wrongfully incarcerated individual” means an individual—

(1)

who was convicted of a covered offense,

(2)

who served all or part of a sentence of imprisonment relating to that covered offense, and

(3)

(A)

who was pardoned, granted clemency, or granted amnesty for that covered offense because that individual was innocent of that covered offense, or

(B)

(i)

for whom the judgment of conviction for that covered offense was reversed or vacated, and

(ii)

for whom the indictment, information, or other accusatory instrument for that covered offense was dismissed or who was found not guilty at a new trial after the judgment of conviction for that covered offense was reversed or vacated.

(c)

Covered offense

(Added Pub. L. 114–113, div. Q, title III, § 304(a), Dec. 18, 2015, 129 Stat. 3087.)

cite as: 26 USC 139F