Maryland Board Approves Nearly $4M for 2 Wrongly Imprisoned.

“We owe these gentlemen not only a financial payment, which we are making, but our sincere apologies and resolutions to oversee changes in the system which will prevent this from happening in the future." - Maryland Treasurer Nancy Kopp

A Maryland board approved settlements of nearly $2 million each Wednesday for two men who were wrongly imprisoned for crimes they didn’t commit.

The three-member Board of Public Works approved the settlements to be paid over seven years.

Board records show Eric Simmons and Kenneth McPherson were wrongly confined after a Baltimore City Circuit Court erroneously convicted them of first-degree murder in 1995. They each spent nearly 24 years in prison up until May of last year.'

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