3 US Men Wrongly Jailed For 36 Years In Murder Case To Get $48 Million
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The lawsuit said that the investigators had ignored eyewitness evidence and physical evidence that contradicted their chosen narrative.
Alfred Chestnut, Ransom Watkins and Andrew Stewart were 16 when they were arrested on Thanksgiving Day 1983 and were charged in the murder of DeWitt Duckett, 14. They were convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. 36 years later, they were declared innocent. Now, the three men will receive $48 million from the city after a vote Wednesday by the Baltimore City Board of Estimates, The Washington Post reported.
"These are men who went to jail as teenagers and came out as young grandfathers in their 50s," Baltimore Police Department chief legal counsel Justin Conroy told the city's Board of Estimates before the panel approved the payment on Wednesday.
The three men also received $2.9 million from the state of Maryland in 2020 under a compensation plan created for exonerees.
