US EditionCalifornia man gets $25M for wrongful conviction after 38 years in prison
Maurice Hastings was exonerated after DNA evidence proved his innocence and received California's largest wrongful conviction settlement of $25 million.
- Maurice Hastings, 72, was awarded $25 million, the largest wrongful conviction settlement in California history, after spending 38 years in prison for a murder he did not commit.
- Hastings was convicted in 1983 for the sexual assault and murder of Roberta Wydermyer, but DNA evidence in 2021 proved his innocence and matched another suspect.
- A judge ruled in 2023 that Hastings was "factually innocent," and his lawyers accused police of framing him, stating "there is a steep price to pay for allowing such egregious misconduct.
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Maurice Hastings received compensation after being found not guilty of a 1983 murder; the alleged perpetrator died in prison in 2020
Hanford Sentinel
Man who served 38 years for gory murder he did not commit settles for $25 million
LOS ANGELES — More than 40 years after he was arrested for a murder he didn't commit, a Southern California man accepted a $25-million wrongful conviction settlement offered by the city of Inglewood on Monday.
Injustice in Inglewood: Black Man Wrongfully Imprisoned 38 Years Awarded $25 Million
For nearly four decades, Maurice Hastings sat in a prison cell for a crime he did not commit. Now, the City of Inglewood has agreed to pay the 72-year-old Black man $25 million in compensation for the years stolen from him—a sum that cannot begin to repay the toll of wrongful incarceration. Hastings was convicted in 1983 of the kidnapping and murder of an Inglewood woman, along with the attempted murder of her husband and a friend. For years, he…
Freed after 38 years in prison, wrongfully convicted man receives $25 million settlement from the City of Inglewood
After 38 years in prison, new DNA evidence exonerated and freed Maurice Hastings in 2022 and led to the identification of a different suspect. Hastings was declared factually innocent by a California superior court in 2023.
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