Three men who spent 36 years in prison for a murder they did not commit — they were wrongly arrested as teenagers by Baltimore police and wrongly convicted by a jury — will receive $48 million from the city after a vote Wednesday by the Baltimore City Board of Estimates.

The $48 million payout is the highest ever awarded in Maryland and one of the highest multi-plaintiff settlements nationally, according to Jeffrey S. Gutman, director of the Public Justice Advocacy Clinic at George Washington University Law School, who tracks wrongful-conviction settlements.

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    No, cities have insurance for this kind of thing. The premiums might go up, but the tax payer isn’t footing the whole bill.

    • @xylogx
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      51 year ago

      The fact that the burden on tax payers is lower, does not change the fact that there is zero accountability here.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        I didn’t argue otherwise. I was just dispelling the notion that the $48m comes out of the city budget. Which, may be part of the problem.