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Unjust Rape Conviction Nets New York Man $530,000
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2001, page 15
In May, 2000, the New York Court Claims in White Plains awarded Victor Ortiz, 41, $530,658 in damages after he spent 12 years in prison for a rape he did not commit. In January 1984, Ortiz, then 25, was convicted of rape and sentenced to 12 to 25 years. He ...
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