A man exonerated after spending over two decades in prison for murders in Queens that he did not commit will receive a $17.5 million settlement from New York City, an apparent record, according to his lawyer and city data.
It recognizes the horrible suffering that a young, innocent man went through facing the death penalty for three years and life without parole for 21 more, Mr. Emery said.
The exonerations of the three men occurred shortly after the Queens district attorney, Melinda Katz, in her first year on the job, created a unit to review cases that might have resulted in wrongful convictions. The review unit said it had found no intentional misconduct by the office in the handling of the men's cases.
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