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Wrongfully Convicted Black Man Gets $7.75M After Spending 24 Years In Jail
(atlantadailyworld.com)
From the Atlanta Daily World:
Photo: Getty Images The City of Durham, North Carolina has agreed to pay $7.75 million to a Black man who spent 24 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of murder, per WRAL News. Darryl Anthony Howard was convicted in 1995 of second-degree murder in connection to the deaths of Doris Washington and her … Continued
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It only sounds enticing if I get to decide when I leave. If you know ahead of time that it’s gonna be twenty four fucking years, I don’t think anyone takes that deal. That’s a quarter of your life if you’re lucky.
I don’t know that there’s a dollar amount that’ll make that okay, I can’t even imagine losing that much time.