(WDRB) — A federal jury awarded nearly $25 million Wednesday to one of two men wrongfully convicted for the alleged "satanic ritual" killing of Rhonda Sue Warford in 1992. In a news release Thursday, Jeffrey Clark's legal team said a federal jury awarded Clark $24.35 million in his civil suit against Meade County, former Meade County Sheriff Joseph Greer, Deputy Clifford Wise and former Meade County Coroner William Adams, who they say "conspired to wrongfully imprison him (Clark) for 22.5 years." Attorneys call it one of "the largest" civil rights verdicts in the state of Kentucky. In addition to the $24.35 million, the jury awarded Clark an additional $75,000 in punitive damages. Clark and Keith Hardin spent more than two decades in prison before they were released in 2016 after the Kentucky Innocence Project took on the case.
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A federal jury awarded nearly $25 million to Jeffrey Clark, a Kentucky man wrongfully convicted in 1992 of a satanic ritual murder. Clark spent 22.5 years in prison before being released in 2016 after the Kentucky Innocence Project took on his case. The jury also awarded Clark an additional $75,000 in punitive damages.
newspaper Read article(WDRB) — A federal jury awarded nearly $25 million Wednesday to one of two men wrongfully convicted for the alleged "satanic ritual" killing of Rhonda Sue Warford in 1992. In a news release Thursday, Jeffrey Clark's legal team said a federal jury awarded Clark $24.35 million in his civil suit against Meade County, former Meade County Sheriff Joseph Greer, Deputy Clifford Wise and former Meade County Coroner William Adams, who they say "conspired to wrongfully imprison him (Clark) for 22.5 years.
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A federal jury awarded nearly $25 million to Jeffrey Clark, a Kentucky man wrongfully convicted in 1992 of a satanic ritual murder. Clark spent 22.5 years in prison before being released in 2016 after the Kentucky Innocence Project took on his case. The jury also awarded Clark an additional $75,000 in punitive damages.
(WDRB) — A federal jury awarded nearly $25 million Wednesday to one of two men wrongfully convicted for the alleged "satanic ritual" killing of Rhonda Sue Warford in 1992. In …
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