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In Germany the reimbursement is be 25 Euro[1] (28 USD) per day. I hope it's more i the US and other countries. [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haftentsch%C3%A4digung
In practice, the State makes it VERY hard to ever recover those funds. There are guys who were exonerated years ago who are still waiting to receive a single penny.
What'd he do in the military? He may be able to leverage those skills for immediate employment.
He was an infantryman. Kicked down doors in Iraq going room-to-room searching for insurgents. Until the charges are formally dismissed, it's hard to imagine any employer will actually be willing to hire him. The DA's office is really making his life hard by refusing to just immediately stipulate that he's an innocent man.
I wonder if Dateline would have interest in updating his story, and if there might be any compensation for something like that. I'm not involved in TV production, but you would think if they had enough interest to report on his conviction (which happens every day) there would be an even better story regarding his release.
Because of the man's relatively common name, it was hard initially to find articles in the mainstream press about his exoneration (at least compared to his 2009 conviction). Here is a recent LA Times article that covers the boilerplate: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-palmdale-student...
The media seem to prefer that formulation of his name, because it sounds creepier.
This is the best news article: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-20160624-jenning...
And this is a great blog post: http://mimesislaw.com/fault-lines/prosecutors-ask-court-to-r...
Ask Peter Thiel to fund his litigation against the state and to put up his living expenses until he wins.
Churches. I currently tutor a formerly homeless man whom I met through an Episcopal church. They saw him sleeping outside the front door and took him in. They connected him with low income housing services who found him a subsidized apartment and gave him a job working in the cafeteria of their school. I'd visit a few parishes and ask friends/family who are churchgoing for direction. Best of luck and I hope Ray gets…
Do you know of any online Christian outlets or forums that might be open to promoting Ray's GoFundMe?