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Innocent Georgia Man Receives $500,000 as Compensation for Rape Conviction
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2009
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2009, page 14
The State of Georgia paid $500,000 to a man who spent 28 years in prison for a rape he did not commit. John Jerome White was arrested in 1979 after an elderly woman identified him during a police line up as her attacker.
Filed under:
Searches,
DNA Testing/Samples,
Wrongful Conviction,
State Legislation.
Location:
Georgia.
In 2007, DNA evidence cleared White and ...
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