NEW YORK (AP) - A man who had a murder conviction overturned after 13 years in prison has reached a $2.75 million settlement with New York state.
Kareem Bellamy had been convicted of a 1994 stabbing that he steadfastly maintained he hadn’t committed.
His attorney announced the settlement on Wednesday. The state Attorney General’s office confirmed it, but had no comment.
Bellamy was initially freed from prison in 2008 after his lawyers produced a tape of another man confessing to 1994 killing.
That recording was later revealed to be a fake, but an appeals court said Bellamy still deserved a new trial.
Prosecutors in 2011 said a technicality prevented them from retrying Bellamy, but still believed him guilty.
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