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$800,000 Awarded to Wrongly Convicted Tennessee Man
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2005, page 18
After maintaining his innocence for 22 years, Clark McMillan was released from prison after DNA evidence cleared him of raping a 16 year-old in 1980. McMillan was released from a Tennessee prison in 2002 after DNA testing revealed a former Memphis resident serving time in Texas for rape had committed …
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