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$600,000 Awarded Missouri Man in Legal Malpractice Verdict After 17 Years in Prison

by Monte McCoin

In May 2018, jurors in a Newton County Circuit courtroom awarded $600,000 to a man who spent 17 years in a Missouri prison before his conviction was overturned by that state’s supreme court.

Dwight D. Laughlin won the verdict in a malpractice lawsuit against his public defender, ...

 

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