$2 Million in Settlements for Wrongful Arrest, Conviction in Ohio

Loaded on Sept. 15, 2010 published in Prison Legal News September, 2010, page 23

Filed under: DNA Testing/Samples, Sentencing, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment. Location: Ohio.

Two former Ohio prisoners have accepted settlements totaling $2 million after being wrongly imprisoned for crimes they did not commit. One of the men, Derris Lewis, spent 18 months in jail pending trial on murder charges. The other, Robert McClendon, served 18 years in prison for rape.

Lewis was arrested ...

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