RICHMOND, Va. AP - Taxpayers will pick up more than $500,000 in legal fees to defend against a suit filed by a death row inmate who came within nine days of execution for a slaying he did not commit.On May 5, federal jury in Charlottesville awarded Earl Washington Jr. $2.25 million after concluding that a former state police special agent fabricated evidence that led to Washington's death sentence.
May 31, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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RICHMOND, Va. AP – Taxpayers will pick up more than $500,000 in legal fees to defend against a suit filed by a death row inmate who came within nine days of execution for a slaying he did not commit.
On May 5, federal jury in Charlottesville awarded Earl Washington Jr. $2.25 million after concluding that a former state police special agent fabricated evidence that led to Washington’s death sentence.
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