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$5.25 Million Paid to Former Ohio Prisoner for Wrongful Murder Conviction

The City of Barberton, Ohio has paid $5.25 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a man wrongfully convicted of murder. Clarence Elkins spent almost eight years in prison before being exonerated by DNA evidence in 2005.

Elkins had been charged with the 1998 murder of his mother-in-law, Judith Johnson. ...

 

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