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Innocent California Prisoner Freed After Nine Years; Paid $1 Million
Loaded on June 15, 2008
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2008, page 38
An innocent man sentenced in 1995 to 27 years for raping and kidnapping a 13-year-old girl was freed by the California Innocence Project after serving 3,280 days in prison. In his subsequent suit for wrongful incarceration, he received $1 million in a settlement with the city, county and state governments ...
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