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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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UNCOVERED: Kansas wrongful conviction lawsuit reaches 12 5m settlement | History Defined

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A local government in Kansas has agreed to pay $12.5 million to a man and his mother after he spent 23 years in prison for a double murder he did not commit.

The Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, approved the settlement Thursday and said in a statement Friday that it admits no guilt in the wrongful conviction and two life sentences of Lamonte McIntyre in the mid 1990s.

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