The City of Louisville has agreed to pay millions of dollars to two exonerated men who each spent 22 years of their lives behind bars for a heinous murder they did not commit.
Keith Hardin and Jeffrey Clark will receive $20.5 million dollars after they were wrongfully convicted for the death of Rhonda Sue Warford in 1992.
The two were exonerated in 2018 with the help of The Innocence Project and the Kentucky Innocence Project, which presented DNA evidence refuting the convictions.
The actual killer has never been brought to justice, according to officials.
Attorneys for Hardin and Clark said in a release that the settlement stems from “egregious misconduct committed by officers from the Louisville Metro Department,” including former LMPD detective Mark Handy, who was assigned to the case.
Two national legal teams working with Louisville attorney Larry Simon brought a civil lawsuit in 2018, which presented “overwhelming evidence of police misconduct and conspiracy to hide evidence in the 1992 murder investigation of Rhonda Sue Warford.”
Attorneys said Handy’s misconduct throughout the 1990s, including fabrication and taping over recorded evidence, sent numerous innocent men to prison. He was convicted of perjury in 2021 and sentenced to a year in prison.
Source: WAVE
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