California Man Cleared After 40 Years in Prison Gets $21M

California Man Cleared After 40 Years in Prison Gets $21M
Craig Coley talks with reporters in Sacramento, Calif. Coley spent 39 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit on Feb. 15, 2018. Rich Pedroncelli/AP
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SIMI VALLEY, Calif.—The city of Simi Valley, California, has reached a $21 million settlement with a man wrongly imprisoned for nearly 40 years in the killing of his girlfriend and her 4-year-old son.