Man who spent 38 years in prison after wrongful murder convictions gets $21-million settlement
by Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times
Feb 24, 2019
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES_Simi Valley reached a $21-million settlement with a man who spent more than 38 years wrongfully incarcerated in the brutal 1978 murders of a woman and her 4-year-old son, officials said.
Craig Coley, 71, was released from prison in 2017 after he was pardoned by then-Gov. Jerry Brown, who said that DNA evidence and a painstaking re-investigation of the Simi Valley murders proved his innocence.
The city said Saturday that the agreement would mitigate long,
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