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$14.5 Million Awarded to Oklahoma Man for 14 Years Wrongful Imprisonment
Loaded on Jan. 9, 2015
Filed under:
Police Misconduct,
Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct,
Wrongful Conviction,
Wrongful Imprisonment.
Location:
Oklahoma.
$14.5 Million Awarded to Oklahoma Man for 14 Years Wrongful Imprisonment
A Tulsa, Oklahoma, man freed in 2002 after spending 14 years in prison for a rape he did not commit won a $14.5 Million award after a trial in federal court in March 2006.
Arvin McGee, …
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