Font Size: increase font decrease font

Exonerated US man wins civil rights suit, $13.2M

The Associated Press

March 11, 2013

CINCINNATI (AP) - The tears flowed as a federal jury exonerated David Ayers of murder after he spent 13 years in prison, with jurors finding that two police detectives violated his civil rights by coercing and falsifying testimony and withholding evidence supporting his innocence. The jurors awarded him $13.2 million.

This article requires free registration

This article requires free registration to The Legal Intelligencer. Please sign in or register to read the full text.