Walter Ogrod, who was exonerated after spending 28 years in prison for the 1988 slaying of 4-year-old Barbara Jean Horn, has agreed to a $9.1 million settlement of a federal lawsuit he filed against the City of Philadelphia, Ogrod’s lawyers announced Friday.
In June 2020, a Philadelphia Common Pleas Court judge overturned Ogrod’s conviction after the District Attorney’s Office agreed it was tainted by critical flaws — including a coerced confession, key evidence withheld by police and prosecutors, and unreliable testimony from jailhouse snitches.
28-years. $325,000 a year, without interest of course.
I’ve been in jail a time or three, 2 nights in county at the worst. Word is that prison is far better, more structured, whatever. At 52, I might consider a year in the pen for $1M+. Might. At my place in life, that’s retirement.
Nah. Fuck that.
Cancerous website, made me pile drive my phone just to get out of their paywall net
I got not a single ad, thanks to Firefox and uBlock Origin.
This is the way
