A man living in Pike County, Ohio was recently awarded in a case involving the murder of his friend.
The man’s conviction was reportedly overturned when he was awarded $600,000 in damages for wrongful imprisonment.
Kenneth Moore, 49, admitted to a jury in 1995 that he shot and killed his friend, Darrel Benner, 44, one night while they were drinking.
Since this time, Moore has spent nine years of a 15 years-to-life sentence behind bars for the murder.
Moore’s case was recently overturned by an appeals court who found that the lawyers working for him did not inform him of favorable evidence at the time of the trial.
As a result, he was tried once again and found to be innocent of the murder that took his friend’s life.
Moore was awarded statutory damages of $44, 204 for each year he spent in jail along with $106, 764 in legal fees and $80,817 for lost wages.
(Source: The Columbus Dispatch)
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