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$13.1 Million Settlement Reached by Actor Framed for Murder
Loaded on Aug. 20, 2019
by Douglas Ankney
published in Criminal Legal News
September, 2019, page 25
Filed under:
Wrongful Conviction.
Location:
California.
by Douglas Ankney
The Board of Supervisors of San Francisco approved a settlement of $13.1 million in a claim brought by a man who had spent more than six years in prison after police framed him for murder. The decision was unanimous.
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