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Jul. 26, 2021
San Francisco agrees to pay $8M after vacated murder conviction
The city said the settlement is not based on proven misconduct or a finding of factual innocence, but on the difficulty of retrying a decades-old murder case.
The city of San Francisco will pay $8 million to resolve a lawsuit accusing police of fabricating evidence against a man who spent 20 years in prison for murder.
The city said the settlement is not based on proven misconduct or a finding of factual innocence, but on the difficulty of retrying a decades-old murder case.
The conviction of Maurice Caldwell was overturned in 2010 by a San Francisco Su...
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