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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.