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Utah DOC Settles Wrongful-Death Suit Involving Exonerated Suspect For $150,000

Loaded on Feb. 15, 2006 published in Prison Legal News February, 2006, page 38
Filed under: Sentencing, Wrongful Conviction. Location: Utah.
by Michael Rigby

On September 29, 2004, the widow of a one-time suspect in the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping settled her wrongful-death lawsuit against the Utah Department of Corrections (DOC) for $150,000.

When 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her Salt Lake City home on June 5, 2002, police were desperate ...

 

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