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Man Absolved By DNA Given $2.2 Million
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Published: May 11, 2008
MIAMI - City officials have agreed to pay $2.2 million to a man wrongfully convicted of six murders and a rape.
Jerry Frank Townsend spent 22 years in prison after he was convicted of the crimes in Miami-Dade and Broward counties. DNA evidence exonerated him, and he was freed in 2001.
Miami city commissioners agreed Thursday to settle a lawsuit with Townsend. He is still suing the Broward County Sheriff's Office, which charged him with several killings.
The lawsuits allege that detectives coerced confessions from Townsend, who has an IQ of about 50, and doctored evidence against him.
The Associated Press
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