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Ohio Pays More Than $9.6 Million to Three Men Wrongfully Convicted in 1975 Murder
Loaded on March 9, 2017
by Lonnie Burton
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2017, page 60
Filed under:
Wrongful Conviction.
Location:
Ohio.
by Lonnie Burton
On February 22, 2016, the State of Ohio and two men imprisoned for decades for a murder they did not commit agreed to a settlement totaling more than $5.9 million. A third defendant convicted in the same case separately settled his claims for $3.65 million.
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