NYC Will Pay $17.5 Million to Man Who Was Wrongly Convicted of 1996 Murders

NYC Will Pay $17.5 Million to Man Who Was Wrongly Convicted of 1996 Murders
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The Associated Press
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NEW YORK—New York City will pay $17.5 million to a man who spent 24 years in prison for a double homicide he did not commit, city officials said Thursday.

The settlement in the case of George Bell, one of three men convicted for the 1996 killing of a Queens check-cashing store owner and an off-duty police officer, was first reported by The New York Times.