RICHMOND, Va. — Governor Glenn Youngkin has given the city of Richmond a deadline to pay $5.8 million to a man who was wrongfully imprisoned for 44 years for the 1975 murder of a toddler.
In a letter sent to Richmond Mayor Danny Avula, Youngkin gave the city two weeks to compensate Marvin Leon Grimm or face withholding of state funding. The deadline for payment is August 15.
Grimm was exonerated in June 2023 after DNA evidence proved he was not responsible for the murder and sexual assault of a 3-year-old boy whose body was found on the banks of the James River in Richmond in November 1975…