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The state of Michigan has agreed to pay $1.75 million to an innocent man who spent 35 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of sexual assault.

LANSING — The state of Michigan has agreed to pay $1.75 million to an innocent man who spent 35 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of sexual assaul

Per Michigan state law, he will be paid $50,000 per year that he wrongfully spent in prison.

Louis Wright spent 35 years in a Michigan prison for a crime he didn't commit. The state will now pay him for that time.

The state of Michigan has agreed to pay $1.75 million to an innocent man who spent 35 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of sexual assault. Louis Wright was released in November after authorities said DNA tests ruled him out as the perpetrator in an attack on an 11-year-old girl in Albion, a small town in southwestern Michigan, in 1988. People who are exonerated based on new evidence are eligible for $50,000 for each year spent in a Michigan prison.

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The state of Michigan has agreed to pay $1.75 million to an innocent man who spent 35 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of sexual assault.

Louis Wright, 65, will receive $1.75 million from the state of Michigan after serving 35 years in prison on a wrongful sexual assault conviction.

Louis Wright freed in November after DNA ruled him out as perpetrator of child sexual assault in Michigan in 1988

The US state of Michigan agrees to pay $1.75m (£1.37m) in compensation to Louis Wright, who was wrongly convicted of attacking an 11-year-old girl in 1988 and spent 35 years behind bars. He was finally freed after DNA tests ruled him out as the perpetrator.