Kentucky is one of 13 states that doesn’t compensate people wrongfully convicted.
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The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled the five-year statute of limitations ran out and the city should have known Mark Handy was corrupt when the lawsuit was filed and then settled in 2012.
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The men were alleged victims of corrupt former Louisville police officer Mark Handy and the police department which played a central role in their wrongful conviction for the "satanic ritual" killing of Rhonda Sue Warford in 1992.
The bill is expected to go before state lawmakers early next year.
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Percy Phillips was charged with the murder in 2009, immediately after Edwin Chandler was exonerated. The case has been pending ever since.
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The 1993 shooting of gas station clerk Brenda Whitfield has been a travesty of justice for her family, but, finally, after nearly 30 years, the murder trial of Percy Phillips, charged in 2009, began on Wednesday.
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A murder case that has seen a man wrongfully convicted of the crime could go to trial this week, nearly 30 years after the crime occurred.
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He spent nearly a decade in prison before new technology helped prove his innocence in 2009.
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Despite a request from prosecutors to put him back in jail with a bond, Percy Phillips left the courtroom a free man until his trial, now set for April 2022.
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Bevin’s pardon ended up prompting a judge to dismiss a suit recently – because the pardon included no finding or evidence showing the person was innocent.