Alfred Chestnut, Andrew Stewart and Ransom Watkins — known today as the “Harlem Park Three” — were arrested as minors in November 1983 for the slaying of 14-year-old DeWitt Duckett.
Baltimore will pay $48 million to three Black men who each spent 36 years in prison for a high-profile killing they did not commit after police wrongly arrested them as teenagers, according to an agreement.
The largest settlement in Maryland history was unanimously approved this week by the Baltimore City Board of Estimates, closing a today!
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