The Elicker administration has agreed to pay Vernon Horn and Marquis Jackson a total of $30.5 million to settle a pair of wrongful conviction lawsuits first filed in 2018. The settlement, which now heads to the Board of Alders for approval, comes less than a month before jury selection had been slated to begin in September for a trial of the consolidated cases. It marks the first set of wrongful-conviction settlements the Elicker administration …
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