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: Bodily Injury BlogCity Settles Suit Over Wrongful Convictions
By Edward Bills
Two men who spent nearly 14 years in prison for a murder they did not commit will share $7.5 million under a proposed settlement, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The convictions of Antoine Goff and John "J.J." Tennison were overturned in 2003 after a federal judge ruled that San Francisco city prosecutors withheld evidence that could have cleared the men. Another judge subsequently declared the men innocent of the charges.
Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on July 29, 2009 (boomark / email).
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