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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A man who spent 26 years in prison for a bank robbery and murder he did not commit settled his wrongful incarceration lawsuit against the state for $1.5 million.
The agreement between Gary James and Attorney General Marc Dann's office awards the former prisoner $700,000 upfront and $500,000 to be disbursed over 15 years. His lawyers get the remaining $300,000.
James, 54, and a childhood friend, Timothy Howard, were convicted of a 1976 bank robbery in Columbus and the murder of a guard, Berne Davis, who was shot execution-style. They received death sentences, which were commuted to life in prison when Ohio's capital-punishment law was ruled unconstitutional in 1978.
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