$3.2m award in wrongful jailing
Man served 6 years after police error
The city of Boston has agreed to pay $3.2 million to a Roxbury man whose wrongful conviction in the shooting of a police officer in 1997 led to the temporary shutdown of the Police Department's fingerprint unit and sweeping changes in how such evidence is collected and analyzed. (Full article: 872 words)
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