Man wrongfully convicted awarded $25K, Wisconsin Claims Board decides
Man wrongfully convicted awarded $25K, Wisconsin Claims Board decides By AP author article MADISON, Wis. - The Wisconsin Claims Board announced Monday that it will award $25,000 to a man wrongfully convicted in a 1995 homicide later connected to a Milwaukee serial killer. Sam Hadaway was seeking the maximum compensation for a wrongful conviction under state law. The Claims Board said he was clearly innocent in 16-year-old runaway Jessica Payne's death. Police found Payne's body behind an abandoned house in Milwaukee in August 1995. Investigators arrested Hadaway and Chaunte Ott in the death,...