Spain's Supreme Court has ruled that Ahmed Tommouhi, a Moroccan man who spent 15 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of ten rapes, is entitled to €2.5 million in state compensation. Tommouhi, who arrived in Spain in 1991, was exonerated between 2023 and 2025 after a 2015 legal reform eased the burden of proof for wrongful conviction appeals — despite DNA evidence having excluded him at the time of the original trial. The ruling is significant because it broadens the legal standard for claiming compensation, requiring only that an objective error be evident from the annulled verdict rather than that the mistake be "blatant" and "obvious" as previously demanded; however, the court stopped short of making compensation automatic in all such cases, leaving a legal ambiguity that lawmakers may still need to resolve.