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Saturday, 15 May 2021

North Carolina brothers awarded $75M in federal civil rights case

In 1983, Henry McCollum and Leon Brown were convicted or raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl in Red Springs North Carolina. After 31 years of maintaining their innocence in prison, the two had their conditions overturned in 2014 and now they were just awarded $75 million from a jury in a federal civil rights case.



from New York Daily News https://ift.tt/2QkdRp2

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