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Innocent Man Awarded $1 Mil After Spending 31 Years In Prison

Posted on March 24, 2018March 24, 2018 by BLK ALERTS

Tennessee awarded a man $1 million after he spent nearly 32 years in prison for a crime that DNA evidence cleared him of. Lawrence McKinney, 61, was imprisoned in 1978 for rape and burglary before freed in 2009. The Tennessee Board of Claims granted him the compensation on Wednesday.

 

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