A Black man has received a historic $25m settlement after he spent 44 years of his life wrongly imprisoned in North Carolina for the rape of a white woman.
Ronnie Wallace Long, now 68, was living in Concord when he was found guilty of rape and burglary by an all-white jury in 1976. At age 21, Mr Long received two life sentences, with his attorneys claiming that the jury was handpicked by local law enforcement leaders.
