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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Apr 16, 2022, 08:28 PM Apr 2022

A Milwaukee man spent 24 years in prison for crimes he didn't commit. Now a state board says he [View all]

should get $1 million.

A Milwaukee man who spent 24 years in prison for crimes he did not commit should be awarded $1 million for his wrongful conviction, a state board has decided.

Daryl Holloway was freed from prison in 2016 after DNA testing exonerated him in a rape case. He is the longest wrongfully convicted person released in Wisconsin

to date, according to the Wisconsin Claims Board.

"It's an apology," said Nathaniel Cade, one of Holloway's attorneys. "It's an acknowledgment that a lot of things went wrong."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/milwaukee-man-spent-24-years-221356292.html
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