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Ohio Man Awarded in Wrongful Imprisonment Case
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.
Innocent Man Admits to Murder
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.
Victim Receives Compensation
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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Man Receives Funds for Wrongful Conviction in Louisiana
A man who was wrongly imprisoned for 26 years at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola was recently freed and cleared of his convictions.
The man was accused of a rape he did not commit and now, with the help of Rep. Frankie Howard, he will be compensated for his lost time.
Innocent Man Arrested and Imprisoned
Rickey Johnson was arrested in 1982 for breaking into a woman’s home in the middle of the night and raping her.
He was sentenced to life without parole and has been imprisoned ever since.
DNA Testing Proves Innocence
In 2007, the Innocence Project joined forces with Johnson’s attorney and they conducted DNA testing on evidence collected the night of the rape.
The DNA profile reportedly did not match Johnson, but instead matched one of the inmates he had befriended in prison who was charged with another rape in the same apartment complex.
“If police and prosecutors had not focused on Ricky Johnson so early in their investigation and if proper eyewitness were identified, the real perpetrator might have been brought to justice sooner,” says Vanessa Potkin, from the Innocence Project.
Compensation Given to Free Man
Although the $150,000 paycheck Johnson will receive won’t give him back all the years he spent in jail, Johnson and his family are happy and relieved that justice has finally be served.
“I am not the man who committed this rape, all I want to do is go home,” said Johnson when he was released.
(Source: Leesville Daily Leader)
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