Man who spent 45 years in jail for murder he didn’t commit gets $1.5m compensation

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A former auto worker who spent 45 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit has been awarded $1.5 million by the US state of Michigan as restitution for his wrongful conviction.

Richard Phillips was convicted in 1972 and sentenced to life in prison “based almost entirely” on the false testimony of one witness, according to prosecutors.He was freed in 2018 after the University of Michigan’s Innocence Clinic took up his case and declared him the longest imprisoned innocent man in America.“I would rather die in prison than to admit to something that I didn’t do,” he told WDIV television last year.

The wait ended Friday when Michigan’s top law enforcement official announced the $1.5 million award — the largest of three restitution payments.

 

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