A mentally disabled man who was wrongfully convicted in the slaying of a 94-year-old woman has reached an $11.7 million settlement with a northern Indiana city and former police officers, his attorneys said Friday.
The settlement for Andrew Royer, who spent 16 years in prison after confessing to Helen Sailor's killing, is the largest known Indiana settlement reached in a wrongful conviction case, said Elliot Slosar, one of Royer's attorneys.
