City pays wrongfully convicted Louisville woman nearly $3 million in botched police case
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On June 9, the city agreed to pay $2.9 million, but did not admit any fault.
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Johnetta Carr claimed in a lawsuit filed Dec. 2020 that she was 16 when police accused her of murdering her boyfriend and that during the course of the investigation, detectives fabricated and coerced witnesses into saying that she was involved with his murder.
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