Michigan to Pay $1.75 Million to Innocent Man After 35 Years in Prison

Michigan to Pay $1.75 Million to Innocent Man After 35 Years in Prison
Louis Wright, right, stands with his sister, Darlene Hall, after his release from a Michigan prison on November 2023. Daniella Mizhericher/Cooley Law School Innocence Project via AP
The Associated Press
Updated:
0:00

The state of Michigan has agreed to pay $1.75 million to an innocent man who spent 35 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of sexual assault.

Louis Wright was released in November after authorities said DNA tests ruled him out as the perpetrator in an attack on an 11-year-old girl in Albion, a small town in southwestern Michigan, in 1988.