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Ohio Awards $662,000 to Man Wrongly Imprisoned for Rape
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2006, page 30
The State of Ohio has agreed to pay Nathaniel Lewis, 28, $662,000 for the five years he spent in prison before his conviction was overturned by a federal appeals court in 2002.
While a freshman at the University of Akron (UA), Lewis was convicted of raping another UA freshman, …
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