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New York City Settles False Imprisonment Suit For $1.25 Million
Loaded on May 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2005, page 31
On September 23, 2004, New York City agreed to pay $1.25 million to a man who was falsely arrested and imprisoned for 15 months.Bernie Pollard, a 28-year-old construction worker, was arrested at his Brooklyn home on July 22, 1989, in connection with a woman's stabbing death.
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