Man Wrongfully Imprisoned seeks Financial Restitution
A man who was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 27 years is seeking monetary compensation for his pain and suffering. Former inmate William Dillion is asking for a settlement in the upper millions of dollars for a conviction that landed him in a Brevard county correctional facility. Although DNA exonerated him from the 1981 murder [...]
Wrongfully Convicted Man Awarded $14 Million
A federal jury recently awarded fourteen million dollars to a man who spent almost fifteen years in prison after he was wrongly convicted in the 1988 killing of a twelve-year-old girl. The jury in the United States District Court awarded Shawn Drumgold with compensatory damages on Wednesday. Drumgold had accused Boston police detective Timothy Callahan [...]