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The Maryland Board of Public Works will vote on whether to award $2.9 million in compensation to a Baltimore man who served 31 years in prison before he was exonerated. Gary Washington, 63, was convicted of first-degree murder and use of a handgun in a crime of violence in the 1986 fatal shooting of Faheem Ali and sentenced to life in prison. After a Baltimore City Circuit Court judge vacated ...

In 1987, the state of Maryland declared Guy Gordon Marsh had been wrongfully convicted of a 1971 murder -- and released him from prison -- because a key witness had committed perjury at Marsh's 1973 trial. Now he's seeking compensation for 14 years he spent in prison.

His compensation, calculated by an administrative law judge at $91,431 per year, comes under a 2021 law that allows the wrongly convicted to seek a financial remedy.

The 20th person to be compensated under a law that helps wrongfully convicted people was awarded $723,147.14 Wednesday by the Board of Public Works.

A man convicted of killing his infant son was later exonerated. Now he is essentially being tried again as he seeks compensation for a wrongful conviction.