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Kansas wrongful conviction lawsuit reaches $12.5M settlement
A local government in Kansas has agreed to pay $12.5 million to a man and his mother after he spent 23 years in prison for a double murder he did not commit.
The Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, approved the settlement Thursday.
The government said in a statement Friday that it admits no guilt in the wrongful conviction and two life sentences of Lamonte McIntyre in the mid 1990s.
McIntyre was freed in 2017 after a prosecutor asked the court to vacate his convictions and drop all charges.
https://newstalkkzrg.com/2022/07/01/kansas-wrongful-conviction-lawsuit-reaches-12-5m-settlement/