*(Via MSN News) – An Ohio man freed last year after spending 39 years in jail for a murder he did not commit will receive roughly $1 million from the state for his wrongful imprisonment, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported on Thursday.
The paper said an Ohio Court of Claims judge ordered that the sum be paid to Ricky Jackson, the longest-held U.S. prisoner to be cleared of a crime.
“Wow, I didn’t know that,” said Jackson, who learnt the news from a journalist. “Wow, wow, wow, that’s fantastic, man. I don’t even know what to say. This is going to mean so much.”
Jackson was convicted along with Wiley Bridgeman and Bridgeman’s brother, Kwame Ajamu, for the 1975 murder of Harold Franks, a money order salesman in the Cleveland area, after a 12-year-old boy testified he saw the attack, court papers show.
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