Wisconsin: Wrongfully Convicted Former Prisoner Receives $6.5 Million

Loaded on Oct. 3, 2016 published in Prison Legal News October, 2016, page 38

Filed under: Police Misconduct, DNA Testing/Samples, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment. Location: Wisconsin.

Chaunte D. Ott received a $6.5 million settlement from the City of Milwaukee for spending over 12 years in prison on a wrongful murder conviction, after being cleared by DNA evidence that connected the crime to a serial killer.

Ott, now 42, was convicted of the August 1995 murder of ...

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