A judge declares a man wrongfully imprisoned for 28 years for a slaying he didn’t commit..
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A Cleveland man who spent nearly three decades behind bars for a murder he always maintained he didn’t commit was declared wrongfully imprisoned on Monday. Charles Jackson struggled to keep from smiling when Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Kathleen Sutula made the decision in a case that stems from a 1991 slaying at an apartment building on Othello Avenue. He had spent 28 years in prison. The declaration allows Jackson to collect money in the Ohio Court of Claims for each year he spent behind bars.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s office and Jackson’s attorneys from the law firm of Friedman, Gilbert and Gerhardstein filed a joint motion on Monday, agreeing that Jackson was wrongfully imprisoned.
Jackson said that receiving the roughly $52,000 for each year he wrongly spent behind bars will allow him to take care of his mother and his siblings. But he said it is only the first step for the state to atone for taking away more than half his life. “I don’t think they can ever make it right,” Jackson said. Jackson last year filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit against Cleveland, the police detectives who worked on his case and an assistant Cuyahoga County prosecutor who initially redacted multiple pages of exculpatory police reports in response to a request from attorneys with the Ohio Innocence Project. The federal case is pending before Judge J. Philip Calabrese.
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