U.S. man gets $10m for 25 years ‘wrong’ imprisonment

U.S. man gets $10m for 25 years ‘wrong’ imprisonment

Thursday, June 7, 2018 10:00 am


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A U.S. man who was found innocent after serving 25 years in prison was given 10 million U.S. dollars on Wednesday as compensation.

The settlement set a record for the city of Philadelphia, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, where Anthony Wright was sentenced to life without parole for a 1991 rape and murder case.

DNA evidence discovered later proved that Wright was innocent.

Innocence Project, an activist group promoting DNA evidence in criminal investigations, said in a statement that Wright was the victim of poor investigation procedures by the police, who allegedly threatened to beat Wright if he wouldn’t sign a confession written by the police.

The group said Wright is the 344th DNA exoneree in the nation.


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