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Exonerated Montana Prisoner Sues State, Receives $3.5 Million

Loaded on Aug. 15, 2008 published in Prison Legal News August, 2008, page 34
Filed under: Police Misconduct, DNA Testing/Samples, Crime/Demographics, Crime Labs, Wrongful Conviction. Location: Montana.
In January 2008, the state of Montana settled a lawsuit filed by a former prisoner who had been wrongfully convicted of raping a child, paying him $3.5 million. The settlement was the largest amount the state had ever paid for a civil rights violation.

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