RELIEF: Man Wrongfully Jailed For Forty Years Will get $1 Million In Compensation
An Ohio man freed final yr has been instructed he’ll be getting a $1 Million greenback compensation from the Authorities for his wrongful imprisonment.
“I don’t even know what to say. That is going to mean a lot,” he mentioned upon learning of the pay from a journalist.”
Mr Jackson, fifty eight, was one in every of three who had been placed on dying row in 1975 after being convicted of aggravated homicide within the slaying of a businessman exterior a retailer in Cleveland. He was imprisoned for 39 years.
Prosecutors on the time relied on the testimony of a thirteen-yr-outdated boy to present the responsible verdict towards Jackson and his buddies, Wiley Bridgeman and Ronnie Bridgeman, who additionally occur to be brothers.
The boy solely got here out a number of years later, saying he was not even current on the scene of the crime, thereby leaving no proof tying him to the m*rder.
Mr Jackson, fifty eight, was one in every of three who had been placed on dying row in 1975 after being convicted of aggravated homicide within the slaying of a businessman exterior a retailer in Cleveland. He was imprisoned for 39 years.
Prosecutors on the time relied on the testimony of a thirteen-yr-outdated boy to present the responsible verdict towards Jackson and his buddies, Wiley Bridgeman and Ronnie Bridgeman, who additionally occur to be brothers.
The boy solely got here out a number of years later, saying he was not even current on the scene of the crime, thereby leaving no proof tying him to the m*rder.