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\nThe 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.<\/p>\n
\nThe 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The actual killer has never been brought to justice, according to officials.<\/p>\n
Attorneys for Hardin and Clark said in a release that the settlement stems from \u201cegregious misconduct committed by officers from the Louisville Metro Department,\u201d including former LMPD detective Mark Handy, who was assigned to the case.<\/p>\n
Two national legal teams working with Louisville attorney Larry Simon brought a civil lawsuit in 2018, which presented \u201coverwhelming evidence of police misconduct and conspiracy to hide evidence in the 1992 murder investigation of Rhonda Sue Warford.\u201d<\/p>\n
Attorneys said Handy\u2019s 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.
\nSource: WAVE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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