Alfred Chestnut, Andrew Stewart, Ransom Watkins to receive $14.9M each
Baltimore will pay $48 million to three Black men who each spent 36 years in prison for a high-profile killing they did not commit after police wrongly arrested them as teenagers, according to an agreement.
The largest settlement in Maryland history was unanimously approved this week by the Baltimore City Board of Estimates, closing a federal lawsuit brought by the trio after their 2019 exoneration. The men alleged that detectives had a pattern of coercing witnesses, not just in their nearly 40-year-old case.
The State’s Attorney for Baltimore City had found them innocent after a reinvestigation. Eyewitnesses renounced previous testimony that had contributed to the wrongful convictions.
Just curious, but from what fund does that $$ come?
Make sure it does not come from my MD STATE TAX dollars and from the BALTIMORE CITY taxes that is not an undercover STATE payment. Get the money from the ones that convicted them and sentenced them. I was not one of them . Remember that