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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.
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.
AFP via Getty ImagesA man who was wrongly convicted and incarcerated for 35 years is set to receive $1.75 million from the state of Michigan. In 1988, Louis Wright was found guilty of sexually assaulting an 11 year-old girl in Albion. Although police say that Wright confessed, it was not recorded, he never signed a confession, and was never identified by the victim, according to the Cooley Law School Innocence Project. Wright was released in November after DNA evidence exonerated him, and he wil
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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 W