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MIAMI - FLORIDA state on Thursday paid US$1.25 million (S$1.7 million) to a 46-year-old man wrongly convicted of several crimes who spent 24 years in jail before DNA evidence in 2006 cleared him of all wrongdoing.
'No dollar amount can replace the time Alan lost in prison,' Governor Charlie Crist said after signing a state law compensating Mr Jerome Alan Crotzer for the time he lost.
Mr Crotzer was sentenced to 130 years for attempted armed robbery and two rapes in 1982, when DNA evidence was unavailable at trials.
DNA tests conducted in 2006 exonerated him from the crimes and he was set free.
During his imprisonment, Mr Crotzer earned a university degree in education and worked as a gardener, gaining a licence in pest control.
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