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Illinois Wrongful Conviction Suit Settled for $5 Million

In June 2012, the Village of Woodridge, Illinois, and several of its police officers settled a case brought by a man who bad been wrongfully convicted of rape due to the suppression and fabrication of evidence twenty years earlier. The settlement amount was $5,000,000.

In 1987, Marcus Lyons was a ...

 

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