New York City has agreed to pay a 53-year-old Jonathan Fleming $6.25 million as compensation after he spent nearly 25 years in prison before being exonerated in a killing that happened while he was more than 1,000 miles away vacationing at Disney World, the city comptroller Comptroller Scott Stringer said Tuesday.
Stringer said settling Fleming's claim is "in the best interest of all parties."
"We cannot give back the time that he served, but the city of New York can offer Jonathan Fleming this compensation for the injustice that was committed against him," he added.
- Yahoo News
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