In Chicago, two men who spent 16 years in prison for wrongful murder convictions as teenagers have received $120 million.
A federal jury has ordered the City of Chicago to pay $120 million to two men wrongfully convicted of a 2003 murder. After spending over a decade in prison, they were exonerated by new evidence.
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John Fulton and Anthony Mitchell were awarded $120 Million, $60M each in their wrongful conviction lawsuit against the City of Chicago.
Fulton and Mitchell both were teenagers when they were arrested, and have said they were coerced into making false confessions, after detectives made false promises of leniency, and physically and psychologically abused them.
The $120 million settlement is one of the city’s largest for wrongful convictions. Their combined 32 years in prison is also a new city record for a wrongful conviction case.
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