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$250,000 Awarded to Former New York Prisoner Wrongly Convicted by Falsified Evidence
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2009
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2009, page 22
by David M. Reutter
Filed under:
Police Misconduct,
Crime/Demographics,
Criminal Prosecution,
Wrongful Conviction,
Supervisory Liability,
Failure to Train/Supervise,
False Arrest.
Location:
New York.
A New York Court of Claims has awarded $250,000 to a former prisoner based on her claims of malicious prosecution and negligent supervision, after finding a State Police investigator had fabricated fingerprint evidence in her case.
The claimant, Shirley Kinge, was convicted in November 1990 of ...
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