Almost a decade passed between the time when James L. Owens Jr. was freed from prison for a crime he didn’t commit and Baltimore agreed to pay him $9 million to resolve a lawsuit. Officials and advocates who have been reviewing how to handle such wrongful convictions have an idea to speed up the…
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Baltimore paid a wrongfully convicted man $9M to resolve a lawsuit. Is there a cheaper, quicker way to settle cases?
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