CLEVELAND, Ohio – The city of Cleveland has agreed to pay $7.9 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the estate of a man who spent 45 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.
Here are five takeaways from Adam Ferrise’s story Thursday in cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer about the settlement.
1. Cleveland will pay $7.9 million for one of the longest wrongful imprisonments in history…