Man wrongly convicted of killing 2 Michigan hunters in 1990 agrees to $5.25M settlement - Toronto Star
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A man who was wrongfully convicted of killing two Michigan hunters in 1990 has agreed to a $5.25 million settlement with the state of Michigan.
The settlement comes after more than three decades of legal battles and appeals by Ronald Cotton, who was released from prison in 2016 after DNA evidence proved his innocence. He had served nearly 13 years for the murders of Mark Clemons and William Cook, both 47-year-old hunters from Wyoming, Michigan.
Cotton's case gained national attention due to its involvement with the "false memory" theory, which suggested that Cotton had been influenced by sugge…
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