Los Angeles to pay $24.3M to 2 wrongly convicted men
Source: AP
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles City Council agreed Tuesday to pay a total of $24.3 million to Kash Register and Bruce Lisker, two men who were suing the city for wrongful murder convictions after spending decades in prison.
The council voted to pay $16.7 million to Register and $7.6 million to Lisker, who had filed unrelated but similar lawsuits challenging the police work that helped send them to prison.
City Councilman Paul Krekorian said the move will likely save the voters money in the long run, but it's also the right thing to do.
Register served over 34 years for the shooting death of a 78-year-old man in west Los Angeles in 1979. In 2013, a judge overturned his conviction, saying police ignored the sisters of one eyewitness who said the woman was lying.
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