Settlement for N.Y. Man Wrongly Convicted in Club Bouncer's Murder
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The lawyer for a man wrongly convicted in the killing of a nightclub bouncer says the city and state of New York have agreed to pay his client $2.6 million.
Olmedo Hidalgo spent almost 14 years in prison before being cleared in 2005 after new evidence surfaced.
Lawyer Irving Cohen says the city will pay $2 million to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit and the state will pay the rest, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Hidalgo now lives in the Dominican Republic, the paper said.
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Hidalgo is one of two men convicted and sent to prison for the 1990 killing of a nightclub bouncer. The other man was retried in 2007 and acquitted.
Officials from the offices of the district attorney and the New York attorney general declined to comment.