Our (Viewers Corner News) correspondent in Topeka learned that Lamonte McIntyre spent 23 years in prison for a double murder he did not commit. On Monday, a court ordered Kansas state to pay Lamonte McIntyre $1.5 million for his wrongful conviction. According to the report, McIntyre was convicted and sentenced to life in prison when he was 17 years old for the murders of Donald Ewing and Daniel Quinn in 1994. He served 8,583 days in prison before he was exonerated and freed in October 2017. Following the mistaken-conviction law which was passed in 2018, McIntyre filed a lawsuit against Kansas state. The law allows those who were convicted and imprisoned wrongfully to seek monetary damages from the state. He was awarded $1.5 million on Monday for his wrongful conviction.
Source: Viewers Corner News.