Pittsburg man gets $3.77 million for serving 19 yrs in wrong rape conviction!!!

A 50-year-old man in Pittsburgh will receive nearly $4million dollars if the Mayor approves a settlement he recently reached with City Council after spending almost two decades behind bars for a rape he did not commit..read more for remainder
Pittsburgh City Council has approved a $3.77 million settlement with a man who spent 19 years in prison before his rape conviction was overturned by DNA evidence in 2005.City attorneys didn’t immediately return calls for comment on Monday’s vote, but an attorney for the now-retired city detective who arrested 50-year-old Thomas Doswell in the 1986 rape says an out-of-court settlement was reached last month, subject to council’s approval. Mayor Luke Ravenstahl must also approve it.

Doswell claimed in a 2007 lawsuit that the photo lineup was tainted because his mug shot was the only one marked with an ”R,” which was how Pittsburgh police at the time routinely marked rape suspects’ photos. He had been arrested in a previous rape case but was acquitted.
Doswell’s attorney confirmed the settlement, but otherwise declined comment.

Money still cant bring back his valuable lost time but at least it brings some kind of justice to him and his family.

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