A Pennsylvania man who spent nearly four decades behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit filed a civil lawsuit Thursday against the city of Philadelphia, as well as against several former prosecutors and police detectives, for allegedly conspiring in a “sex for lies” scheme to wrongly convict him.

Willie Stokes, 60—the state’s longest incarcerated exoneree—was released from the Chester State Correctional Institution on Jan. 4 after serving 37 years for the 1980 murder of Leslie Campbell, which he did not commit, said his attorneys Joshua Van Naarden and Julia Ronnebaum of Van Naarden Spizer Chase and Pinto.

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