Feds Pay Wrongfully Convicted D.C. Men $1.9 Million

Loaded on Sept. 15, 2011 published in Prison Legal News September, 2011, page 28

Filed under: Sentencing, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment. Location: District of Columbia.

The U.S. Department of Justice agreed in April 2011 to pay almost $1.9 million to two former prisoners wrongfully convicted of murder, who spent a combined 49 years in prison for a District of Columbia homicide.

Joseph Wayne Eastridge and Joseph Nick Sousa, along with two co-defendants, were convicted in ...

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