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What is just compensation for spending a year in prison after being wrongfully convicted of a crime?
While admitting no wrongdoing by Normal police, the town has settled with a man convicted and imprisoned but later cleared of a 1995 homicide.
NORMAL, Ill. (WTVO) — Alan Beaman, who spent years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, has won a $4.5 million settlement from the town of Normal, Illinois. Beaman sued the town and several police officers for malicious prosecution. He was alleged to have killed his ex-girlfriend, Jennifer Lockmiller, a student at Illinois State […]
Sixteen years after his conviction was overturned by the Illinois Supreme Court, Alan Beaman has tentatively accepted a $5.4 million offer to settle his wrongful prosecution lawsuit against the town
Beaman was convicted of murder in 1995, but the Illinois Supreme Court threw out his sentence in 2008. (Town of Normal Facebook Page) By WMBD-TV NORMAL - Alan Beaman was scheduled for a civil trial later this month against the town of Normal, but a $5.4 million settlement has ended the trial b