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March 31, 2025
Town Must Pay $7.7M To Murder Exoneree With Added Interest
A Connecticut murder exoneree is entitled to nearly $2 million in interest payments on top of a $5.7 million jury verdict against the estate of a deceased town of New Milford police officer, a federal judge has ruled.
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March 20, 2025
Conn. Murder Exoneree Seeks Extra $2M From Cop's Estate
A Connecticut felony murder exoneree on Thursday asked a judge to heap an extra $2 million onto a $5.7 million federal jury verdict issued Wednesday against the estate of a now-deceased town police officer who failed to raise red flags about a key witness's interview.
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March 20, 2025
Meet The Attys Behind Conn. Exoneree's $5.7M Trial Win
A trio of attorneys from civil rights litigation boutique Kaufman Lieb Lebowitz & Frick LLP helped win a $5.7 million verdict this week for a Connecticut man who spent three decades in prison for felony murder before later being exonerated.
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March 19, 2025
Connecticut Jury Awards $5.7M To Murder Exoneree
A Connecticut federal jury on Wednesday handed an exonerated murder defendant $5.7 million, finding a town police officer negligent for failing to stop evidence fabrication by a state police interrogator.
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March 18, 2025
Conn. Murder Exoneree Asks Civil Rights Jury For $50M
A Connecticut exoneree on Tuesday urged a federal jury to award more than $50 million — or $5,000 per day — for the three decades he spent behind bars for a 1985 murder, arguing two town cops ignored cracks in the case almost from the beginning.
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March 10, 2025
Bad Police Work Led To 30-Year Sentence, Conn. Jury Told
A Connecticut man who served 30 years in prison for a murder he did not commit should be compensated because one local police officer failed to disclose key evidence and another sat by as the state police fed facts to an informant, his attorneys told a federal jury Monday afternoon.
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May 29, 2024
2nd Circ. Unsure If Error Kept Murder Exonerees' Case Alive
A Second Circuit judge expressed doubt Wednesday that a lower court erred in declining to grant qualified immunity to two Connecticut police officers whose actions allegedly contributed to the wrongful convictions of two men for a 1985 murder, noting that a key piece of evidence challenging prosecutors' theory remains shrouded in mystery.
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March 01, 2024
Conn. Lawmakers OK $25.2M Deal For 2 Jailed In 1985 Killing
The Connecticut General Assembly's bipartisan joint judiciary committee on Friday unanimously approved a $25.2 million settlement for two men who lawmakers agreed were improperly incarcerated for more than 30 years after a chain of failures led to wrongful convictions in a December 1985 New Milford murder.