May 18, 2011

Alan Newton who spent more than two decades in prison for a crime he did not commit, will finally receive the $18.5 million a federal jury had awarded him

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['Alan Newton, who spent 22 years in prison for a rape crime he did not commit, recently won a Federal Appeals Court decision that will\nreinstate a jury decision to award him\n$18.5 million. In 2006, he was freed after police found evidence that had been missing for almost two decades. A subsequent DNA test totally exonerated him. Newton then sued New York City. In October 2010, a jury awarded him $18.5 million.But in a shocking decision, the trial judge overturned the jury verdict. Newton, now 51, the co-founder of a City University of New York program that helps former inmates transition back to society.', OrderedDict([('@xmlns:itunes', 'http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd'), ('#text', 'Alan Newton, who spent 22 years in prison for a rape crime he did not commit, recently won a Federal Appeals Court decision that will reinstate a jury decision to award him $18.5 million. In 2006, he was freed after police found evidence that had been missing for almost two decades. A subsequent DNA test totally exonerated him. Newton then sued New York City. In October 2010, a jury awarded him $18.5 million.But in a shocking decision, the trial judge overturned the jury verdict. Newton, now 51, the co-founder of a City University of New York program that helps former inmates transition back to society.')])]

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