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$36 Million Awarded to Two Men Wrongfully Convicted of Rape, Murder
Loaded on Sept. 25, 2015
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2015, page 27
Filed under:
Wrongful Conviction.
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New York.
$36 Million Awarded to Two Men Wrongfully Convicted of Rape, Murder
by David Reutter
A New York federal jury awarded $36 million to two of three former prisoners wrongfully convicted in the 1984 rape and murder of a teenage girl.
The horrific death of Theresa Fusco, 16, was a high-profile ...
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