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$16.5 Million-Plus Settlement in Oklahoma City False Conviction Case
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2009
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2009, page 44
by Matt Clarke
Filed under:
Police Misconduct,
Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct,
Searches,
DNA Testing/Samples,
Drug Testing,
Crime Labs,
Wrongful Conviction.
Location:
Oklahoma.
On June 8, 2009, a federal district judge in Oklahoma City signed a judgment following the settlement of a suit awarding a man who spent 17 years in prison for a rape he did not commit over $16.5 million from the forensic chemist and district attorney involved …
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