State to pay $500,000 to wrongfully convicted man 
By:
Associated Press
Published: October 8, 2010
Tags: Nebraska, wrongful imprisonment
The state of Nebraska has agreed to pay $500,000 to one of the six people wrongfully imprisoned for a 1985 Beatrice murder as part of a settlement.
City will pay seven people jailed after street theater protest
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: August 24, 2010
Tags: civil rights, Minnesota, protest, wrongful imprisonment
The Minneapolis, Minn. city attorney’s office has decided to pay $165,000 to settle a federal lawsuit seven people filed after they were arrested and jailed for two days for dressing up like zombies in downtown Minneapolis in 2006 to protest “mindless consumerism.”
City agrees to pay $8 million in wrongful murder conviction
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: August 13, 2010
Tags: California, wrongful imprisonment
Long Beach, Calif. has agreed to pay nearly $8 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who spent 24 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of murder based largely on the testimony of a jailhouse informant.
Man awarded $2M for wrongful murder conviction
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: August 9, 2010
Tags: Michigan, wrongful imprisonment
A $2 million settlement has been reached in a lawsuit filed by a Lansing, Mich. man who was wrongfully convicted of murder.
Man cleared of shooting charge sues over incarceration
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: July 12, 2010
Tags: Kentucky, wrongful imprisonment
A Kentucky man cleared of a 1993 deadly shooting and robbery after spending almost a decade in prison is suing the city of Louisville and the police department after evidence definitively pointed to another man.
State pays $4.25M to exonerated inmate
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: July 12, 2010
Tags: DNA, New York, wrongful imprisonment
An attorney says that New York state is paying $4.25 million in compensation to a Buffalo, N.Y., man who spent 22 years in prison for two rapes committed by someone else.
Wrongfully convicted veteran may get $6.3 million settlement
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: June 29, 2010
Tags: Illinois, wrongful imprisonment
A man who spent 25 years behind bars for a brutal rape he did not commit stands to get $6.3 million from the city of Chicago under a legal settlement the City Council Finance Committee recommended today.
Wrongly imprisoned man wins $5.9 million in suit
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: June 21, 2010
Tags: civil rights, Colorado, wrongful imprisonment
A Colorado man wrongly imprisoned for murder has settled the last of his claims in a lawsuit against officials he said ignored, withheld or destroyed evidence pointing to his innocence.
Man wins $1.3 million in malicious prosecution case
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: June 11, 2010
Tags: Illinois, wrongful imprisonment
Donny McGee, who was arrested for the gruesome 2001 murder of his 76-year-old neighbor three days before his wedding, was awarded $1.3 million after a Cook County, Il. jury found Tuesday that three members of the Chicago Police Department made up his confession.
Wrongfully convicted man expected to receive $1.1 million from state
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: May 24, 2010
Tags: Ohio, wrongful imprisonment
A Columbus, Ohio man freed after 18 years of wrongful incarceration following a Dispatch investigation is expected to receive a state settlement of nearly $1.1 million on Monday.
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