Shawn Drumgold, found guilty in 1989 of murdering a 12-year-old girl, saw his conviction overturned in 2003.
(JOHN TLUMACKI/BOSTON GLOBE FILE PHOTO/2003)
City spends heavily to fight suit
Trial next month in civil rights case
Shawn Drumgold, found guilty in 1989 of murdering a 12-year-old girl, saw his conviction overturned in 2003.
(JOHN TLUMACKI/BOSTON GLOBE FILE PHOTO/2003)
The city of Boston has spent more than $1 million on outside lawyers to fight a lawsuit filed by a man who spent 15 years in prison before prosecutors concluded he was wrongly convicted in one of the most notorious murders in Boston in the past quarter century. (Full article: 1196 words)
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