Milwaukee to pay $6.5M to man wrongly convicted of murder

MILWAUKEE - The City of Milwaukee is proposing paying $6.5 million to a man wrongly convicted of a 1995 murder.

The city attorney on Tuesday filed a proposed settlement to a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by Chaunte Ott. Ott spent 13 years in prison before DNA linked the case to a convicted serial killer.

In a statement, the city says lawsuits based on events that happened nearly two decades ago "present hurdles that make defending such cases exceptionally difficult."

Full story: WJFW

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