Wrongfully convicted New York man Richard Rosario freed after 20 years

Richard Rosario: ‘No amount of money can give me all those precious years back. They ruined my life.’ Photograph: NBC Nightline

A man who served 20 years in prison on a wrongful conviction, despite having 13 alibi witnesses, was awarded $5m by a jury in a federal court in New York on Thursday.

See the Guardian article here.

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