Fairborn man awarded $45M for wrongful conviction after 24 years in prison

A record verdict was announced Monday for a Fairborn man wrongfully accused of raping several women in the 1990s, awarding 57-year-old Roger ‘Dean’ Gillispie $45 million, the highest settlement in state history.

[CrestedSaguaro]

He's been in prison longer than I've been alive... I've been alive 23 years. What a shame. He will never get that time back. In the grand scheme of things, whatever money he gets means nothing compared to the time he lost behind bars.

[FILMINGLOL]

We need a new kind of jury system, jurors don't take their duty seriously and what happened to "beyond a reasonable doubt" it should be "any doubt at all" life is too precious to not be 100% certain when convicting someone, jurors get convinced off of hearsay...which is why a defendant can never have fair trial because how easily humans are convinced of orchestrated lies!

[nunosoares]

Are they going to award this man the 24 years he lost??

[fd]

Betcha he will only see a fraction of $24 million and it will take years.