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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Wrongfully convicted Kansas man to get $7.5 million payment

ASSOCIATED PRESS

A Kansas man who spent 16 years in prison for a rape and murder he didn't commit will receive $7.5 million from the county where he was arrested and convicted of the crime.

Jefferson County commissioners approved the settlement last week with Floyd Bledsoe, who was released from prison in 2015 after DNA evidence showed he could not have been the killer of 14-year-old Camille Arfmann in Oskaloosa.

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