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Logan was released in September 2008, more than 26 years after he was arrested for a murder he did not commit. He subsequently received a certificate of innocence, and was awarded $199,000 in state compensation. In January 2013, the City of Chicago agreed to pay Logan $10.25 million to settle a federal wrongful conviction lawsuit. Mar 5, 1982
After spending more than four years in prison, Doelz filed a wrongful conviction compensation case in Shawnee County District Court. After a 2022 trial, Judge Teresa Watson rejected the claim ...
The headstone of Timothy Evans, who was wrongfully convicted and executed for two murders that had been committed by his neighbour John Christie. A miscarriage of justice occurs when an unfair outcome occurs in a criminal or civil proceeding, [1] such as the conviction and punishment of a person for a crime they did not commit. [2]
Children. 1. Michael Morton (born August 12, 1954) is an American who was wrongfully convicted in 1987 in a Williamson County, Texas court of the 1986 murder of his wife Christine Morton. He spent nearly 25 years in prison before he was exonerated by DNA evidence which supported his claim of innocence and pointed to the crime being committed by ...
Fred Weichel lawsuit against Braintree settled. How much he got in wrongful arrest suit. Fred Weichel, right, was released on $5,000 bail on Thursday, April 27, 2017. Weichel served 36 years in ...
The years-long legal battles involving a man accusing a Durham officer of a wrongful arrest that led to 21 years in prison ended with the city agreeing to a $7.75 million settlement with Darryl ...
Per Kristian Liland, wrongfully convicted of murdering two of his friends in 1969. He was cleared in 1994. His case is known as The Liland Affair. [121] Liland received 13.7 million Norwegian kroner (about US$1.7 million) as compensation for the wrongful prison sentence. May 19, 2000 Viggo Kristiansen
A wrongful arrest by Columbus police resulted in a lost federal civil rights lawsuit, costing the city more than $545,000 in attorneys' fees.