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$1.95 Million for 18 Years Wrongful Imprisonment in North Carolina
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2008
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2008, page 47
On February 16, 2007, a North Carolina man who spent 18 years in prison for a rape he didn’t commit settled with the State and the City of Winston-Salem for $1,958,454.
Filed under:
Police Misconduct,
Racial Discrimination,
Searches,
DNA Testing/Samples,
Wrongful Conviction,
Municipal Liability.
Location:
North Carolina.
Darryl Hunt, a black man, was imprisoned in 1984 for the rape and murder of Deborah Sykes, a young, ...
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